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His football meetings were broken up with talks about movies, woolly aphids, dangerous snakes and whatever else came to Leach’s mind.

Entomologist Ira Thompson at Oregon State University’s Extension Service says these are woolly aphids that take flight each fall in search of a place to lay their eggs.

The woolly aphids thus serve as the sole food of the caterpillar during its brief life as a larva.