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aphid
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1884, anglicized from Modern Latin aphides , plural of aphis , coined by Linnaeus (1758), though where he got it and why he applied it to the plant louse are mysteries. The theory favored by OED as "least improbable" is that it derives from the Greek apheides ...
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
An aphid is a type of sap-feeding insect. Aphid may also refer to: Aphid, the NATO reporting name for the Soviet/Russian Molniya R-60 air-to-air missile Lake Storm "Aphid" , the National Weather Service name for a snowstorm that hit Buffalo, New York October ...
Usage examples of aphid.
It contains allyl sulfide compounds which are decidedly unhealthy for aphids and caterpillars.
This ant-lion charged into the placidly feeding aphids on the milkweed plant.
Even organisms as complex as insects can in some cases give birth to parthenogenetic young and, in the case of aphids, for instance, do so as a matter of course.
Ants marched up and down its stalk in a steady, single file, placing aphids from the ant-city on suitable spots to feed, and to multiply as only parthenogenic aphids can do.
These oils work particularly well on mealybugs, aphids, scale insects, mites, Whiteflies, psyllids, and eggs of other pests like leaf rollers and fruit tree moths.
For instance, one tiny wasp, aphelinus mail, goes after woolly aphids and very little else.
It can be used as a contact and stomach poison as well as a repellent against flies, roaches, aphids, fleas, thrips, leafhoppers, Whiteflies and some kinds of beetles.
This causes a very high nitrogen content, which plant-sucking pests like mealybugs, aphids and scale insects thrive on.
These oils work particularly well on mealybugs, aphids, scale insects, mites, Whiteflies, psyllids, and eggs of other pests like leaf rollers and fruit tree moths.
Other predators include parasitic wasps, aphid lions, predaceous mites and syrphid flies.
They are particularly effective on aphids, earwigs, leaf hoppers, sawflies, leaf miners, spider mites, thrips, scale and Whiteflies.
Farmers battled Terran immigrants like tarnished plant bugs, sawflies, wooly aphids, coddling moths, leafrollers, lesser apple worms, and the arch enemy: plum curculio.
If a plant is seriously infested, particularly with aphids or spider mites, the soapy water swirl bath is the treatment of choice.
Is that brown worm on your rosebuds really a threat to the perfect flower you hoped to get, or is it a hoverfly larva hunting down the rose aphids alighting from the sky?
This has been used experimentally on a small commercial scale with good effects on cabbage moths, cabbage aphids and cabbage white butterflies.