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The beech blight aphid (Grylloprociphilus imbricator) is a small insect in the order Hemiptera that feed primarily on the sap of American beech trees. The aphids form dense colonies on small branches and the undersides of leaves.
Aphis pomi, commonly known as the apple aphid (the literal meaning of its binomial name), or the green apple aphid, is a true bug in the family Aphididae. It is found on young growth of apple trees and on other members of the rose family where it feeds by sucking sap .
Aphis gossypii — cotton aphid; Aphis glycines — soybean aphid; Aphis helianthi — sunflower aphid; Aphis nerii — oleander aphid; Aphis pomi — apple aphid; Aphis rubicola — small raspberry aphid; Aphis rumicis - black aphid; Aphis spiraecola — spirea aphid (syn. Aphis citricola — citrus aphid) Aphis valerianae — black valerian aphid
Some species such as Aphis fabae (black bean aphid), Metopolophium dirhodum (rose-grain aphid), Myzus persicae (peach-potato aphid), and Rhopalosiphum padi (bird cherry-oat aphid) are serious pests. They overwinter on primary hosts on trees or bushes; in summer, they migrate to their secondary host on a herbaceous plant, often a crop, then the ...
Because the aphid has been shown to infest banana plants, the possibility of damage to this host is being monitored as this would cause considerable economic damage. [4] Some signs that are associated with infected plants are abnormal shapes to the fruit and premature drop, external feeding in inflorescence, abnormal leaf fall, and external ...
Aphis gossypii is a tiny insect, an aphid ("greenfly") in the superfamily Aphidoidea in the order Hemiptera. It is a true bug and sucks sap from plants. It is a widely distributed pest of a variety of agricultural crops in the families Cucurbitaceae, Rutaceae and Malvaceae. [2] Common names include cotton aphid, melon aphid and melon and cotton ...
The adults of Eriosoma lanigerum are small to medium-sized aphids, [4] up to 2mm long, and have an elliptical shape, are reddish brown to purple in colour but the colour is normally hidden by the white cotton-like secretion from the specialised glands in the aphid's abdomen which gives it the common name of woolly apple aphid.
Brachycaudus helichrysi is a species of aphid first described by the German naturalist Johann Heinrich Kaltenbach in 1843. [3] Its common names include leaf curl plum aphid, [4] and leaf-curling plum aphid, and it is a serious pest of plum and damson trees. [5] [6]