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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) » Woolly Aphids and Gall-making Aphids (Eriosomatinae) » Pemphigini » Grylloprociphilus » Beech Blight Aphid (Grylloprociphilus imbricator)
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Fluffy hopper nymphs? - Grylloprociphilus imbricator
Copyright © 2012 Ben Gray

Fluffy hopper nymphs? - Grylloprociphilus imbricator
Shallow Ford Natural Area, Alamance County, North Carolina, USA
July 27, 2012
These looked like wooly aphids initially, but more like hopper nymphs now that I can get a closer look at the images. They were extremely gregarious on a beech (?) tree branch and on the leaves. They waved their fluffy abdomens around quickly, so it was difficult to get them in focus. ID help appreciated. Thanks!

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Contributed by Ben Gray on 27 July, 2012 - 4:50pm

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Ben Gray, 27 July, 2012 - 5:01pm login or register to post comments

No you were right, they are aphids :)
I'm gonna go with Beech Blight Aphids

… Natalie Hernandez, 27 July, 2012 - 4:57pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks!
Thanks for the ID, these are some crazy aphids
… Ben Gray, 27 July, 2012 - 5:02pm login or register to post comments

 
They are.
I love watching colonies wave around though, super cute!
… Natalie Hernandez, 27 July, 2012 - 5:04pm login or register to post comments

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