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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) » Woolly Aphids and Gall-making Aphids (Eriosomatinae) » Pemphigini » Neoprociphilus » Woolly Maple Aphid (Neoprociphilus aceris)
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Woolly Maple Aphids on Smilax - Neoprociphilus aceris
Copyright © 2018 Nancy Kent

Woolly Maple Aphids on Smilax - Neoprociphilus aceris
Wildwood Park; Radford, Virginia, USA
July 13, 2018
Found these on Smilax tamnoides. I'd like an ID, please.

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Woolly Maple Aphids on Smilax - Neoprociphilus aceris Woolly Maple Aphids on Smilax - Neoprociphilus aceris
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Contributed by Nancy Kent on 13 July, 2018 - 2:25pm
Last updated 12 October, 2018 - 4:46pm

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… Natalie Hernandez, 12 October, 2018 - 3:21pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks!
Natalie, I appreciate your Id to species.
… Nancy Kent, 12 October, 2018 - 4:50pm login or register to post comments

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… Natalie Hernandez, 12 October, 2018 - 3:21pm login or register to post comments

Wooly Maple Aphid
That's the only aphid listed of on that species of plant, they alternate between sugar maple and Smilax spp. They do tend to be dangling from the vine like that as well.

http://www.aphidsonworldsplants.info/C_HOSTS_Seq_Sop.htm#Smilax

http://www.aphidsonworldsplants.info/d_APHIDS_N.htm#Neoprociphilus

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