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3 unusual facts about Aphid


2006 Buffalo Bulls football team

Due to a snow storm that hit the area, the game was played on Sunday instead of Saturday.

Cercus

Aphids have tube-like cornicles or siphunculi that are sometimes mistaken for cerci.

Greenfly

Aphid, an insect, one variety of which is commonly known as greenfly in Britain and the Commonwealth.


Alarm signal

The aphid Myzus persicae is repelled by the wild potato Solatium berthaultii which releases a chemical from its leaves that acts as an allomone to disrupt aphid attacks.

Alcea

Cutworms, aphids, and capsid bugs use the plant as a food source in hotter and drier conditions.

Alomya debellator

Adult wasps feed on aphid honeydew and nectar of Anthriscus sylvestris and Heracleum sphondylium.

Blue spruce

The blue spruce is attacked by two species of Adelges, an aphid-like insect that causes galls to form.

Dinotefuran

Dinotefuran is an insecticide of the neonicotinoid class developed by Mitsui Chemicals for control of insect pests such as aphids, whiteflies, thrips, leafhoppers, leafminers, sawflies, mole cricket, white grubs, lacebugs, billbugs, beetles, mealybugs, and cockroaches on leafy vegetables, in residential and commercial buildings, and for professional turf management.

FlyBase

1. The first is a study of expressed genes from alate Toxoptera citricida, more commonly known as the brown citrus aphid.

House Finch

They primarily eat grains, seeds and berries, being voracious consumers of weed seeds such as nettle and dandelion; included are incidental small insects such as aphids.

Melezitose

Melezitose, also spelled melicitose, is a nonreducing trisaccharide sugar that is produced by many plant sap eating insects, including aphids such as Cinara pilicornis by an enzyme reaction.

Moulis-en-Médoc

The French Revolution did not help the vineyard, but it picked itself back up again quickly to reach its peak at the end of the 19th century with an area of 1,500 hectares, before being decimated by the Phylloxera aphid.

Pineapple gall adelgid

The Adelgid (genus Adelges) are pear-shaped, soft-bodied green insects with long antennae, closely related to the aphid.

Rhus chinensis

The infestation by Chinese sumac aphids (Melaphis chinensis Bell) can lead to a gall which is valued as a commercial product.

Scorias spongiosa

This aphid is found only on one host plant, the American beech tree, Fagus grandifolia, where it congregates on branches and twigs, creating copious amounts of honeydew that drip onto vegetation below.

Zucchini yellow mosaic virus

Zucchini Yellow Mosaic Virus (ZYMV) is an aphid-borne potyvirus, regarded as a major pathogen of cucurbits in most regions of the world where these crops are cultivated.


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