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aphid infesting pepper plants grown in a house - Aulacorthum solani
Copyright © 2019 John Sankey

aphid infesting pepper plants grown in a house - Aulacorthum solani
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
December 23, 2019
Size: 0.68 mm
The size is of the largest one, including legs and antennae. They were collected with an aspirator then frozen, that's why some are mangled. They took less than a week to reach epidemic numbers - several hundred per leaf.

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aphid infesting pepper plants grown in a house - Aulacorthum solani aphid infesting pepper plants (Capsicum annuum) grown in a house - Aulacorthum solani
Contributed by John Sankey on 23 December, 2019 - 12:30pm
Last updated 10 January, 2020 - 3:24pm

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Moved from Aulacorthum.
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