Pest on crop
Woolly Apple Aphid on apple
Eriosoma lanigerum
Aphid that feeds on apple roots and aerial wood, producing distinctive cottony white wax. Root colonies cause galls that reduce vigor; aerial colonies disfigure new growth.
- Pest
- Woolly Apple Aphid
- Scientific name
- Eriosoma lanigerum
- Crop
- Apple
- Total hosts
- 2
Woolly Apple Aphid on apple
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Signs on apple
- ▸ Cottony white woolly masses on shoots, branch wounds, and at the base of trunks
- ▸ Galls and swellings on roots when soil is excavated
- ▸ Reduced shoot growth and vigor
- ▸ Sticky honeydew below colonies
IPM controls
- ✓ Plant on resistant rootstocks (M.111, MM.106, Geneva series)
- ✓ Encourage parasitic wasp Aphelinus mali (the standard biocontrol)
- ✓ Spot-treat aerial colonies with horticultural oil or insecticidal soap
- ✓ Remove and destroy heavily infested suckers and water sprouts during dormant pruning
- ✓ Improve tree vigor with proper irrigation and nutrition
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