Pomegranate leaves and fruit covered with sooty mold that is growing on honeydew produced by cotton aphids (melon aphids), Aphis gossypii.

Sooty mold coating pomegranate leaves and fruit.; California Credit: Devin Carroll
Pomegranate leaves and fruit covered with sooty mold that is growing on honeydew produced by cotton aphids (melon aphids), Aphis gossypii. Credit: Devin Carroll