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Adelgid

The ‘adelgid’ is a sap sucking insect which likes to spend its time on various conifer trees. Closely related to an aphid it is a member of the adelgidae family insects.

Included within this family is the woolly adelgid, a small, fuzzy little insect that at first glance you wouldn’t suspect could cause such damage ...

Weighing little more than a speck of dust the little woolly adelgids look like little balls of cotton wool. So when they take up residence on hemlock trees they make the tree appear as if it’s been covered in like artificial snow ...

By feeding on the sap of the tree these unassuming, cute sounding insects can kill a tree within just four years ...

So now I’ve learnt about ‘adelgids’ I’m now looking to further my education with a gardening term beginning with ‘b’ ... suggestions welcome ...