🦋 Family

Adelgidae

3 species · Animals

Animalia › Arthropoda › Insecta › Hemiptera › Adelgidae

Adelges tsugae (hemlock woolly adelgid) is a tiny insect that infests and damages or kills hemlock trees in North America.

Adelges abietis, the pineapple gall adelgid, is a conifer-feeding insect that forms galls on spruce.

Adelges cooleyi forms identifiable pineapple-like galls on Cooley spruce, and does not form galls when infesting Douglas fir.

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