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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
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Aphididae & Formicidae
Copyright © 2007 Karl Volkman

Aphididae & Formicidae
Curlew Lake, 10 miles northeast of Republic, Ferry County, Washington, USA
June 12, 2007
Photographed near Curlew Lake, ~10 miles Northeast of Republic, ~20 Miles south of the Canadian Border, ~150 miles east of the Cascade mountains, ~2100 ft in elevation.
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Contributed by Karl Volkman on 29 November, 2007 - 2:00am
Last updated 27 December, 2010 - 3:23pm

Moved
Moved from Aphids.
… Charley Eiseman, 27 December, 2010 - 3:23pm login or register to post comments

ID
Aphidinae
… Andrew Jensen, 27 December, 2010 - 3:16pm login or register to post comments

Ants.
Ants are genus Formica. Knowing the host plant here could help ID the aphids....
… Eric R. Eaton, 26 December, 2007 - 2:56pm login or register to post comments

 
Formica obscuripes, I believe
That is the common, bicolored Formica sp. of the area. It typically has those dingy (infuscated) smaller workers seen in this photo.
… James C. Trager, 10 October, 2017 - 2:10pm login or register to post comments

 
Plant...
...may be Wormwood (Artemisia absinthium), as in:
… John Pearson, 13 December, 2009 - 7:04pm login or register to post comments

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