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Definition of Alder blight
1. Noun. A disease of alders caused by the woolly alder aphid (a plant louse).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Alder Blight
Literary usage of Alder blight
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Insect Life: An Introduction to Nature-study and a Guide for Teachers by John Henry Comstock (1901)
"That which lives on the alder is known as the alder-blight, another kind living
on beech trees is called the beech-tree blight, and a third kind, ..."
2. The Brook Book;: A First Acquaintance with the Brook and Its Inhabitants by Mary Farrand (Rogers) Miller (1901)
"The alder-blight produces honey-dew, and thus supplies nourishment for ...
The alder- blight blessed it with clear showers of liquid sweetness day by day. ..."
3. Entomological News and Proceedings of the Entomological Section of the by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Entomological Section (1908)
"1851 "I have searched in vain for winged individual- ri :' species," the alder
blight has been from timo to tin>e an ••'• « • of speculative interest to ..."
4. Journal of Economic Entomology by Entomological Society of America, American Association of Economic Entomologists (1908)
"For several years the common alder blight has attracted me for various reasons,
and has held my curiosity both because the migrants from the alder in ..."
5. How to Know the Butterflies: A Manual of the Butterflies of the Eastern by John Henry Comstock, Anna Botsford Comstock (1904)
"There are a great many kinds of blight in this world ; there are blighted hopes
and blighted hearts, but an alder blight consists ..."
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