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woolly aphid

DEFINITIONS OF: woolly aphid

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n secretes a waxy substance like a mass of fine curly white cotton or woolly threads

Synonyms:
woolly plant louse
Types:
American blight, Eriosoma lanigerum, woolly apple aphid
primarily a bark feeder on aerial parts and roots of apple and other trees
Prociphilus tessellatus, woolly alder aphid
attacks alders
Type of:
aphid
any of various small plant-sucking insects
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