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American blight   /əmˈɛrəkən blaɪt/   Listen
American blight

noun
1.
Primarily a bark feeder on aerial parts and roots of apple and other trees.  Synonyms: Eriosoma lanigerum, woolly apple aphid.






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"American blight" Quotes from Famous Books



... Berlese of Italy, and Dr. Reh, of Germany, will attempt the introduction into Europe of some of the parasites of injurious insects which occur in the United States, and particularly those of the woolly root-louse of the apple, known in Europe as the "American blight"—one of the few injurious insects which probably went to Europe from this country, and which in the United States is not so injurious ...
— Little Masterpieces of Science: - The Naturalist as Interpreter and Seer • Various



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