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European Birch Aphid (Euceraphis punctipennis)
Photo#1010997
Copyright © 2014
John Rosenfeld
Aphid -
Euceraphis punctipennis
Allison Park, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA
October 15, 2014
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Contributed by
John Rosenfeld
on 18 October, 2014 - 8:39am
Last updated 19 October, 2014 - 10:11am
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Must be this one, I have other intermediate stages that make this almost certain. Thanks for your help Steve!
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John Rosenfeld
, 19 October, 2014 - 10:11am
Calaphidini?
Note date and host plant. Not an expert.
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Steve Nanz
, 19 October, 2014 - 9:58am
Thanks Steve
That looks likely, I think this one may be the winged adult -
I think I swept it from the same Birch sapling.
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John Rosenfeld
, 19 October, 2014 - 10:07am
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Again, I'm not an expert. I just happened to notice this while trying to ID some of my own photos.
BTW - Although we live in Brooklyn, NY, my wife is from Youngstown and we have a sumer house on the PA side of Pymatuning Lake.
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Steve Nanz
, 19 October, 2014 - 10:25am
I grew up in Edinboro
not too far from there. Lots of memories from my childhood of the massive schools of Carp that would fight for the bread we'd toss. I recall a sign boasting something like "Pymatuning, where the ducks walk on the fish".
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John Rosenfeld
, 19 October, 2014 - 10:47am