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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) » Chaitophorinae
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Black Willow Aphids
Copyright © 2004 Tony DiTerlizzi

Black Willow Aphids
Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
May 23, 2004
Shot on a Dogwood sapling in our backyard. These field ants have been taking good care of them.
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Contributed by Tony DiTerlizzi on 26 May, 2004 - 3:29pm
Last updated 18 August, 2020 - 2:39pm

Moved
Moved from Aphids.
… Natalie Hernandez, 18 August, 2020 - 2:39pm login or register to post comments

Look more like Chaitophorus to me.
Was the sapling definitely dogwood? Chaitophorus prefer Poplar, but they look like these and are usually ant attended.

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… Natalie Hernandez, 28 August, 2018 - 6:35pm login or register to post comments

Possibly not black willow aphids
I'm trying to ID some aphids that look exactly like these, and I'm having no luck at all online. The aphids in this photo have all the right features (wingless, glossy black body, very short and light-colored cornicles, white stripes across the "shoulders"), but the photo on this specialist's site looks totally different.
… Steven N. Severinghaus, 24 August, 2005 - 2:16pm login or register to post comments

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