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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) » Chaitophorinae » Chaitophorini » Chaitophorus
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New York Carpenter Ants and Aphids - Chaitophorus
Copyright © 2022 Stephen G Gingold

New York Carpenter Ants and Aphids - Chaitophorus
Amherst, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, USA
May 30, 2022
I am pretty sure that the ants are Camponotus novaeboracensis (New York Carpenter Ant) but could be mistaken. I am not sure about the aphids. Since there are two species I just posted in ID Request. Please put in correct place and ID the aphids please.

Thank you!
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Contributed by Stephen Gingold on 6 June, 2022 - 3:36pm
Last updated 17 June, 2022 - 4:37pm

Moved
Moved from Aphids.
… Natalie Hernandez, 17 June, 2022 - 4:37pm login or register to post comments

 
Thank you.
for the move, Natalie.
… Stephen Gingold, 17 June, 2022 - 4:58pm login or register to post comments

Do you know what the plant was?
Often important or even necessary for aphid ID.
… Natalie Hernandez, 6 June, 2022 - 5:18pm login or register to post comments

 
Following up.
In reviewing my images I found one with a wider view and the plant is an Aspen sapling.
… Stephen Gingold, 17 June, 2022 - 12:05pm login or register to post comments

 
Plant ID
These were on young oak saplings. Not sure of the species.
… Stephen Gingold, 6 June, 2022 - 5:41pm login or register to post comments

 
Hmmmm
Well these look like Chaitophorus to me, but they colonize Poplar and Willow. I can't think of a species that looks like this and colonizes oak, and keys generally require a slide mounted specimen.
… Natalie Hernandez, 14 June, 2022 - 1:41pm login or register to post comments

 
I tried
to get more pictures this weekend but of course the same situation wasn't happening where I found them. I don't recall poplar or willows in this field but there are a few species of oaks, blueberry bushes, and aspens.
I guess I'll be happy saying possible leaf aphids. I am not an entomologist. Just a photographer who enjoys insects and likes to be accurate with my identifications.
Thank you, Natalie!
… Stephen Gingold, 14 June, 2022 - 2:46pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Ken Wolgemuth, 6 June, 2022 - 4:26pm login or register to post comments

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