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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » Plant-parasitic Hemipterans (Sternorrhyncha) » Phylloxeroidea » Adelgidae » Pineus » Pine Leaf Adelgid (Pineus pinifoliae)
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Adelgid #1 - Pineus pinifoliae - female
Copyright © 2009 Christopher Adam

Adelgid #1 - Pineus pinifoliae - Female
Fredericton, York County, New Brunswick, Canada
June 16, 2008
Size: 2mm
There were several of these on the tips of a white pine (Pinus strobus) in my backyard last summer, the only time I've ever seen them.

8Dec: Changed title. How psilly of me not to recognize an adelgid!
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Contributed by Christopher Adam on 7 December, 2009 - 1:35pm
Last updated 3 December, 2019 - 7:42pm

Moved
Moved from Adelgidae.
… Charley Eiseman, 3 December, 2019 - 7:42pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Ken Wolgemuth, 8 December, 2009 - 6:49pm login or register to post comments

I think this may be
a Pine Leaf Adelgid (Pineus pinifoliae). Can't find an image on BugGuide, but there's one at this site: http://www.vtfpr.org/protection/BrownNeedlesonWhitePine.cfm (scroll down).
… Ken Wolgemuth, 7 December, 2009 - 2:02pm login or register to post comments

 
Adelgid totally makes sense
*
… v belov, 7 December, 2009 - 6:10pm login or register to post comments

 
Apparently a female
with a big pile of eggs behind her.
… Charley Eiseman, 7 December, 2009 - 6:19pm login or register to post comments

 
You might be correct.
This large pine has two rows of spruce hedge beside it (it formed one corner of our yard. Check out my images of Eastern spruce gall adelgid here), which were taken from just a few feet away.
… Christopher Adam, 7 December, 2009 - 2:35pm login or register to post comments

 
Nice shots
Very different from the critter in question. Incidentally, I found a somewhat larger image of the Pine Leaf Adelgid (evidently also known as the Pine Leaf Chermid) here: http://www.forestryimages.org/browse/detail.cfm?imgnum=4836003
… Ken Wolgemuth, 7 December, 2009 - 3:01pm login or register to post comments

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