So, yesterday my wife noticed what looked like white spray-paint on the lawn in our backyard. We have a big old Maple tree in the yard with trunk diameter about 44 inches. She went outside and discovered that it was a lot of curled maple leaves with some white stuff inside. The white stuff turned out to be clusters of small winged bugs (Thrips?) all coated in a sort of powdery/fungus-like stuff. They were all alive and sort of struggling to get free - was it some kind of egg-casing material? Bugs were 1-3 mm in size... here is a YouTube link to a very short phone video (six seconds) https://youtube.com/shorts/BWVmUQQ4Ysk?feature=share4 Attached is a photo, my wife probably has better pics on her Camera (my Pixel 7 doesn't have macro capabilities like her Samsung does)
Perhaps this: https://www.salisburypost.com/2015/...woolly-aphids-look-alarming-do-little-damage/ One interesting fact about the insect is it needs an alternate host of silver maple and alder (trees related or in the birch family) to complete its life cycle.
