Rosy apple aphid
Insect
Rosy apple aphid
Dysaphis plantaginea (Passerini)
Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Aphididae
Distribution: Widespread in most fruit-growing states and provinces in eastern North America.
Photos
Stunted shoots produce characteristic malformations on leaves and fruit.
NY State Ag Experiment Station
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Populations arise from the overwintered stem mothers (A), which are wingless and purplish in color, and form into colonies of rosy-purple nymphs with dark cornicles (B). They do not have the waxy, wool-like covering that the woolly apple aphid produces.