Its eggs are 0.3 mm (0.012 in) long orange ovals that are clumped together on twigs, cuts on trees, and on fruit during the summer.

Each mass of eggs is referred to as an ovisac or a nest and it is coated with white filaments that resemble cotton.

[1] The species use "piercing-sucking mouthparts" to create honeydew that causes mold, that is the color of soot, to grow on fruit.

A mixture of biological pest control and chemicals successfully removed the species from orchards and vegetable fields in what was once part of the USSR.

[2] In a 1980 Japanese study, virgin adult females were taken from pumpkins so that scientists could extract their sex pheromone in order to capture the males.