Everything is late this year, including the Ash Aphids - but they finally arrived.
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Does this happen every year?
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When you say ash aphid, is this the same pest as an emerald ash borer which basically is making ash trees extinct on the east coast?
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Every year.
I ran cross country in high school. I’m pretty sure there are still multitudes of these fuzzy blue gnats still deeply embedded in my lungs 40 years later…
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No. Different creature. These aphids have a rather complicated life cycle involving two different host trees, Fir trees and Ash trees. They congregate on Ash trees in the fall.
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it’s the worst! they were all over my front porch. every year though. frost coming soon once they show up
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