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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » Plant-parasitic Hemipterans (Sternorrhyncha) » Aphidoidea » Aphids (Aphididae) » Aphidinae » Aphidini » Aphidina » Aphis » Subgenus Aphis (Aphis Subgenus Aphis) » Aphis asclepiadis
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milkweed aphids? - Aphis asclepiadis
Copyright © 2009 Joe Zito

milkweed aphids? - Aphis asclepiadis
Cedar Rapids, Linn County, Iowa, USA
July 15, 2009
Size: 2 mm
Eating on common milkweed, are these just "milkweed" aphids, or are there various species that feed on milkweed?

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Contributed by Joe Zito on 18 July, 2009 - 6:24pm
Last updated 9 November, 2009 - 9:50pm

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Ken Schneider, 24 July, 2009 - 1:17pm login or register to post comments

Twofer
Those fleecy white things are ladybug larvae, perhaps in the genus Scymnus:
… Chuck Entz, 18 July, 2009 - 9:54pm login or register to post comments

There are only three...
species of aphid that feed on common milkweed that I know of; these look like Aphis asclepiadis (which there isn't a guide page for yet).
… Adam J Bell, 18 July, 2009 - 9:15pm login or register to post comments

 
Milkweed aphids
Adam--what is the name of the third species, and is this it?
… Charley Eiseman, 2 November, 2009 - 11:45am login or register to post comments

 
The Third Aphid
Sources such as this one point to Myzocallis asclepiadis.
… Chuck Entz, 9 November, 2009 - 12:11am login or register to post comments

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