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Harvester ovipositing in Woolly Maple Aphid, Neoprociphilus aceris, colony - Feniseca tarquinius - female
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Harvester ovipositing in Woolly Maple Aphid, Neoprociphilus aceris, colony - Feniseca tarquinius - Female
Lexington Wildlife Management Area, Cleveland County, Oklahoma, USA
June 26, 2019
Aphids identified by Natalie Hernandez, entomologist and aphid specialist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), as Woolly Maple Aphids, Neoprociphilus aceris. And the host plant has been identified as bristly greenbrier, Smilax tamnoides, by Amy Buthod of the University of Oklahoma.
Contributed by Bryan E. Reynolds on 14 July, 2019 - 10:58am

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