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aphid

DEFINITIONS OF: aphid

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n any of various small plant-sucking insects

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Aphis pomi, apple aphid, green apple aphid
bright green aphid; feeds on and causes curling of apple leaves
Aphis fabae, bean aphid, blackfly
blackish aphid that infests e.g. beans and sugar beets
greenfly
greenish aphid; pest on garden and crop plants
ant cow
excretes a honeylike substance eaten by ants
woolly aphid, woolly plant louse
secretes a waxy substance like a mass of fine curly white cotton or woolly threads
green peach aphid
yellowish green aphid that is especially destructive to peaches
pale chrysanthemum aphid
important pest of chrysanthemums
American blight, Eriosoma lanigerum, woolly apple aphid
primarily a bark feeder on aerial parts and roots of apple and other trees
Prociphilus tessellatus, woolly alder aphid
attacks alders
Type of:
louse, plant louse
any of several small insects especially aphids that feed by sucking the juices from plants
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