Crossword clues for aphid
aphid
- Ladybug prey
- Greenfly, e.g
- Greenhouse louse
- Crop-eating pest
- Sap-sucking pest
- Prey for a ladybug
- Plant-sucking pest
- Plant-sucking insect
- Plant-eating insect
- Lacewing's lunch
- Horticultural pest
- Garden bug
- Fruit tree's enemy
- Tiny sap sucker
- Snack for a ladybug
- Small plant-sucking insect
- Sap-sucking plant pest
- Rose's foe
- Rose petal pest
- Rose garden insect
- Plant-eating pest
- Plant bug
- Ladybug's lunch, at times
- Ladybug snack
- Gardener's enemy
- Crop-damaging insect
- Corn pest
- Bug that secretes honeydew
- Begonia's bane
- Apple orchard pest
- Windborne pest
- Vegetable crop pest
- Treat for a ladybug
- Small sap sucker
- Rosebush-infesting bug
- Rose-eating insect
- Rose petal eater
- Plant sucking insect
- Pest in a rose garden
- Pest in a garden
- Orchard critter
- One with a plant-based diet
- Nuisance to gardeners
- Munchie for a ladybug
- Minute crop pest
- Leaf nuisance
- Ladybug's morsel
- Ladybug's lunch, perhaps
- Ladybug nosh
- Ladybug food
- Lacewing's snack
- Lacewing's munchie
- Lacewing meal
- It can ruin a plot
- Insect eaten by ladybugs
- Insect born pregnant
- Honeydew source
- Greenfly etc
- Green-bellied sap sucker
- Gardeners' pest
- Fruit-tree pest
- Fruit-grower's bane
- Enemy of a gardener
- Common insect pest
- Bug whose offspring may be pregnant before their own birth
- Sap sucker
- Plant pest
- Farm pest
- Plant louse
- Garden insect
- Food for a ladybug
- Garden pest
- Rose pest
- It eats its vegetables
- Plant sucker
- Ladybug's prey
- Tiny hopper
- Insecticide target
- Orchard item
- Greenfly, e.g.
- Greenfly, for one
- Creature that reproduces by parthenogenesis
- Insect called a greenfly in Britain
- Green bug
- Morsel for a ladybug
- Horticultural headache
- Fruit grower's bane
- Crop-destroying insect
- Honeydew producer
- Insect that's born pregnant
- Any of various small plant-sucking insects
- Destructive pest
- Orchard pest
- Green garden bug
- Gardener's foe
- Rose's enemy
- Ant cow
- Pomologist's bane
- Plant insect
- One taken in by a third-degree sucker
- What a doctor has, catching current bug
- Sap-sucking bug
- News provider covered up threat to plant
- Louse's elevated state kept under wraps
- Local papers going after a sucker
- Little pest ran for cover after father turned up
- Pressure husband coming in to assist sucker
- Part of photograph identifies louse
- Bug concealed after aide-de-camp deserted
- Blackfly or greenfly?
- In a higher degree Enigmatist may be a pest
- A plant initially concealed a plant pest
- A petal at first concealed plant pest
- Garden intruder
- Destructive insect
- Garden nuisance
- Gardener's bane
- Rose garden pest
- Ladybug's lunch
- Agricultural pest
- Garden invader
- Sap-sucking insect
- Crop pest
- Pest for a rose
- Rosebush pest
- Greenhouse pest
- Plant parasite
- Ladybug's snack
- Fruit tree pest
- Rose-garden pest
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Aphid \A"phid\, n. (Zo["o]l.) One of the genus Aphis; an aphidian.
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 "unsparing, lavishly bestowed," in reference either to the "prodigious rate of production" of the insects or their voracity. They also are known as ant-cows.
Wiktionary
n. sapsucking pest insect of the superfamily ''Aphidoidea''; an aphidian.
WordNet
n. any of various small plant-sucking insects
Wikipedia
Aphids, also known as plant lice and in Britain and the Commonwealth as greenflies, blackflies, or whiteflies (not to be confused with " jumping plant lice" or true whiteflies), are small sap-sucking insects, and members of the superfamily Aphidoidea. Many species are green but other commonly occurring species may be white and wooly or black. Aphids are among the most destructive insect pests on cultivated plants in temperate regions. The damage they do to plants has made them enemies of farmers and gardeners the world over. From a zoological standpoint they are a highly successful group of organisms. Their success is due in part to the asexual reproductive capabilities of some species.
About 4,400 species are known, all included in the family Aphididae. Around 250 species are serious pests for agriculture and forestry as well as an annoyance for gardeners. They vary in length from .
Natural enemies include predatory ladybugs, hoverfly larvae, parasitic wasps, aphid midge larvae, crab spiders, lacewings, and entomopathogenic fungi such as Lecanicillium lecanii and the Entomophthorales.
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 12-13, 2006
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.