Explore how aphids' rapid reproduction and resistance are changing pest control strategies, highlighting new research and challenges in agriculture.

Aphids are small, soft-bodied, slow moving insects with piercing mouthparts that suck the sap out of plants. There are about ...

Bright orange milkweed aphids (Aphis nerii) usually emerge toward the end of summer and feed in clusters on the stems and leaves of common milkweed, swamp milkweed, and other milkweed plants.

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It is lifted up to the leaves and flows down with the products of photosynthesis. It can now be delicately sampled by tapping the tiny stylets that a feeding aphid pushes into a single cell ...

The Artstor website will be retired on Aug 1st. The Florida Entomologist Vol. 88, No. 2, Jun., 2005 Population Dynamics of the Cotton Aphid,... Population Dynamics of the Cotton Aphid, Aphis gossypii ...

For example, aphids living on the trees may excrete the ... but also produces an alkaloid itself that protects the trees from feeding damage. The research team has also shown in field studies ...