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  • Image: Fire Blight 1
    Credit: R. Bessin, University of Kentucky
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green arrowWoolly apple aphid
Erisoma lanigerum

  • Feeding causes curled and stunted terminal leaves
  • Adults produce white waxy material and form cottony white colonies
  • Normally feed on new growth, but may be found feeding on new bark near wound sites
  • Produce large amounts of sticky honeydew that is colonized by sooty mold
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  • Image: Fire Blight 1
    Credit: J. O'Brien USDA Forest Service, Bugwood.org
  • Image: Fire Blight 2

    Credit: Jeffrey Hahn, University of Minnesota

  • Image: Fire Blight 3

    Credit: Jeffrey Hahn, University of Minnesota

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green arrowSooty Mold

  • Black, brown or gray soot-like covering on leaf surfaces, twigs or branches
  • Sticky, shiny secretions on leaves from sap-sucking insects (e.g., wooly apple aphid)
  • Insects or signs of insect damage (distorted, pin-prick feeding marks, etc.) may be seen on leaves or twigs above the most heavily affected moldy areas.
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