Recognition (Apple sucker)

Apple sucker larval wax

Eggs
0.4 mm long, elongate oval and creamish yellow. Found on the bark of young branches and shoots, mainly around spurs and leaf buds (very similar to pear sucker eggs).

Nymphs
Apple green with red eyes, body flattened, broad and ovate, with conspicuous wing buds in later instars. Found mainly in flower trusses at the base where flower stalks meet in spring. Honey dew blobs and waxen threads betray their presence.

Adults
2.5-3.0 mm long, apple green to yellow. Wings transparent with green veins.