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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » Plant-parasitic Hemipterans (Sternorrhyncha) » Aphidoidea » Aphids (Aphididae) » Mindarinae » Mindarus » Balsam Twig Aphid (Mindarus abietinus)
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Balsam Fir Twig Aphid - Mindarus abietinus
Copyright © 2008 Christopher Adam

Balsam Fir Twig Aphid - Mindarus abietinus
Florenceville, Carleton County, New Brunswick, Canada
June 8, 2005
I've searched BG, but I didn't see a page for this species, Mindarus abietinus, an aphid that infects balsam fir (Abies balsamea), especially those of Christmas tree size. We encountered this aphid many times during our field work for an online publication, Pests and Diseases of Balsam Fir Christmas Trees.

The tree's response is curled needles, but this shoot is fairly flat. The faint dark coloration is probably sooty mold that infects the honeydew released by the insects.

Typical curled needles enclosing a colony of aphids.

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Contributed by Christopher Adam on 25 April, 2008 - 1:12pm
Last updated 14 October, 2009 - 6:39am

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