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common
Woolly Apple Aphid
Eriosoma lanigerum
- Habitat
- Apple orchards and hawthorn across temperate regions worldwide
- Body length
- 2.5 mm
- Order
- Hemiptera · Aphididae
Weird but real
It hides beneath waxy white filaments spun from its own body, making whole colonies look like drifting cotton fluff.
Why it's cool
A salmon-pink sap thief in a self-made wool coat—an orchard pest disguised as a tiny scrap of airborne lint.
