What are these?

[VT Outfitter]

I was moving a tree stand to a better position. While trimming a few limbs in a shooting lane I found these things on a branch. They are white like snow and they were moving and twitching. Very strange, I have never seen this before. Anyone know what they are? Did I find an alien race?

 

 

[PREDATE]

I'm gonna guess that it's an apple tree and those are Wooly Apple Aphids.

[PREDATE]

as soon as I sent my last post I found this Katydid on my deck while I was out having a smoke.

Edited October 21, 2014 by PREDATE

[Renegade Hunter]

Yep, def wooly apple aphids.

[growalot]

Dormant oil spray those trees

[VT Outfitter]

No, it wasn't an apple tree. This was on the edge of a hardwood/softwood tree line. I believe it was a beech nut tree. Will the wooly aphids kill those trees? 

[gfdeputy2]

VT Outfitter saw them last year on a lot of trees in WNY wondered the same thing

they were not on apple trees either

[gfdeputy2]

think I found it I do believe they were on the beech trees

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beech_blight_aphid