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adelgid

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Noun1.adelgid - any of various insects that feed and form galls on conifers
plant louse, louse - any of several small insects especially aphids that feed by sucking the juices from plants
Adelges piceae, balsam woolly aphid - a variety of adelgid
Adelges abietis, spruce gall aphid - a variety of adelgid
pine leaf aphid, Pineus pinifoliae - a variety of adelgid
woolly adelgid - an insect that feeds on hemlocks; its egg sacs are small fuzzy white balls like artificial snow on a Christmas tree


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The insect is the Hemlock Woolly Adelgid (Adeleges tsugae) and in the eastern United States it has a very large food supply and no natural predators.
Asana is another spray that controls the balsam woolly adelgid, a European insect that has devastated Fraser firs in forest stands, flattening their tops, swelling their joints and hardening their wood.
The handout includes information on the geological history of the area, the history of Middletown as a port, an industrial city, and a post-industrial community, the making of the campus, and some recent environmental events in the area, such as the separation of storm sewers from waste sewers to prevent further pollution of the river, or the arrival of the woolly adelgid and the consequences for native hemlocks.
 
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