woolly apple aphid

woolly apple aphid
noun
primarily a bark feeder on aerial parts and roots of apple and other trees
• Hypernyms: ↑woolly aphid, ↑woolly plant louse
• Member Holonyms: ↑Eriosoma, ↑genus Eriosoma

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noun
: a cosmopolitan dull reddish woolly aphid (Eriosoma lanigerum) that is primarily a bark feeder attacking both aerial parts and roots of apple and other trees — called also American blight

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