If you happen to have an apple tree in your patch/garden and you happen to see some leaves starting to curl and look like this…
Then you may have what some consider an unwelcome visitor, Dysaphis plantaginea or as most people call it the Rosy Apple Aphid. The most common form you will see it in is the rosy/slate grey, waxy instar shown below.
Small paler earlier stage aphids look like this…
DC: 28/05/2023
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