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Hatching Aphids

Hatching Aphids
Fabius, Onondaga County, New York, USA
August 6, 2013
Size: Eggs: 1.5mm Nymphs: 2.2mm
The eggs were red at first and got browner over time.
The newly hatched nymphs are bright red and green and within a few hours the red turns to black.
The eggs were found on zucchini leaves.

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Hatching nymphs
Most likely the Coreidae Anasa tristis, the squash bug. Aphids have a pair of tubular structures near the end of the abdomen called cornicles.

 
Yes,
I guess they are kind of big to be aphids, huh?

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