Woolly apple aphids have a reddish or dark purple body between 1.5 and 2.5 mm in length and the bodies are hidden under a wool-like waxy covering.

Woolly alder aphids are fascinating bugs. Their "wool" is actually a waxy substance that makes them look fuzzy and actually helps them to float on the breeze when they want to move to another plant.

Those little white fuzzy things you might have seen flying around and sticking to things (like cars and trees) over the last few weeks aren’t random cotton pieces floating around - they’re bugs.

Woolly aphids often choose autumn to briefly adopt a fuzzy winged form, and this year’s hatch was particularly spectacular, arriving like a second bloom of cottonwood cotton or a plague of fairies.

While they may look harmless, woolly aphids can be a nuisance to plants.

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The woolly beech aphid is especially common on the undersides of purple leaf beeches. The aphid is greenish and can secrete the white, waxy substance you are seeing from their body.

Question: I've got 5 hackberry tries in my yard and they are all heavily infested with woolly aphids! I wouldn't usually mind, but the aphids are now all over my newly planted native plants. I've ...

They're known as "woolly aphids," and usually make appearances in the region at around this time of the year. They stick to your cars, float into people's hair and usually get stuck on your clothes.

If something's been bugging you lately, welcome to the club. A lot of people have been bugged lately by, well, by tiny little bugs -- hordes of them.

THE woolly beech aphid sounds pleasant enough but he's your new enemy. Lifestyle. Sunday People. 03:06, 09 Feb 2013 Updated 06:32, 09 Feb 2013.

SPOKANE, Wash. — The Inland Northwest is beautiful in the fall, but it’s a time of year that has become synonymous with an abundant pest. Fall is also woolly ash aphid season.