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  2. Aphids in your garden? Here is what to know - AOL

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    Aphids are repelled by strongly aromatic plants such as lavender, marigolds, garlic and mint. Plant these among your more vulnerable plants. Using trap plants is a different approach.

  3. Mild Michigan winters could have consequences for crops ... - AOL

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    Hemlock woolly adelgid, a small, aphid-like insect that's devastated hemlock forests in eastern states from Maine to Georgia, was discovered in small populations along the Lake Michigan shoreline ...

  4. Rhopalosiphum rufiabdominale - Wikipedia

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    Rhopalosiphum rufiabdominale, the rice root aphid or red rice root aphid, is a sap-sucking insect pest with a wide host range and a global distribution. [2] As a member of the superfamily Aphidoidea, it is one of 16 species of the genus Rhopalosiphum. [3] Adults and nymphs are soft-bodied and usually dark green with brown, red, or yellow tones. [4]

  5. Acephate - Wikipedia

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    Acephate is an organophosphate foliar and soil insecticide of moderate persistence with residual systemic activity of about 10–15 days at the recommended use rate. It is used primarily for control of aphids, including resistant species, in vegetables (e.g. potatoes, carrots, greenhouse tomatoes, and lettuce) and in horticulture (e.g. on roses and greenhouse ornamentals).

  6. Eriosomatinae - Wikipedia

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    Woolly aphids on crab apple bark. Pemphigus gall on cottonwood tree Grylloprociphilus imbricator on Fagus Galls made by Melaphis rhois. Woolly aphids (subfamily: Eriosomatinae) are sap-sucking insects that produce a filamentous waxy white covering which resembles cotton or wool. The adults are winged and move to new locations where they lay egg ...

  7. Aphids and other bad bugs can survive cold in veggie garden ...

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    The problem is that if we use the garden for those reasons, so do the bugs. Many insects can plague a vegetable garden through the growing season, including aphids, cucumber beetles, squash vine ...

  8. Aphididae - Wikipedia

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    Aphids do best when amino acids are actively translocated in the phloem. In spring, the leaves grow and import amino acids via the phloem; in summer leaves are mature and export mainly sugars. In autumn, the leaves senesce and export amino acids and other nutrients. Thus on trees the leaves are most suitable for aphids in spring and autumn.

  9. Pemphigus spyrothecae - Wikipedia

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    These gall locations are crucial because plants have a short window in which a gall can be produced. [1] Thus, it is important for there to be a defense system that enables the aphids to retain their galls. The need for defense arises when the gall is opened up to allow winged aphid migrants to leave and to release any waste. [1]