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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 » Adelges » Hemlock Woolly Adelgid (Adelges tsugae)
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Hemlock Woolly Adelgid - Adelges tsugae
Copyright © 2011 tom murray

Hemlock Woolly Adelgid - Adelges tsugae
Gloucester, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
July 9, 2011
Are these Mindarus sp. aphids?
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Contributed by tom murray on 10 July, 2011 - 7:24pm
Last updated 10 July, 2011 - 9:47pm

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… tom murray, 10 July, 2011 - 9:47pm login or register to post comments

Looks like a hemlock with adelgids to me
Are you sure it's yew? Yew should have green twigs.
… Charley Eiseman, 10 July, 2011 - 8:15pm login or register to post comments

 
There was a patch of these along the edge of a path through woods, about 2 feet tall. Maybe they were young hemlocks, but it sure reminded me of yews.
… tom murray, 10 July, 2011 - 8:51pm login or register to post comments

 
I does resemble hemlock (Tsug
I does resemble hemlock (Tsuga canadensis). Charley is right, yew usually has green or tan twigs. Just out of curiosity, are we seeing the tops or the undersides of the needles?
… Corey Husic, 10 July, 2011 - 9:04pm login or register to post comments

 
Undersides of needles
Corey, thanks for the second opinion on the hemlock.
… tom murray, 10 July, 2011 - 9:47pm login or register to post comments

 
thanks
The only reason I asked is because there are often two parallel white lines on the undersides of hemlocks, like here. Maybe they are just faint due to the fact that the tree is young.
… Corey Husic, 11 July, 2011 - 9:20am login or register to post comments

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