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Ants defend aphids against lethal disease.
By Nielsen, C., A.A. Agrawal, and A.E. Hajek.
Biology Letters DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2009.0743, 2009
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Nielsen, C., A.A. Agrawal, and A.E. Hajek. 2009. Ants defend aphids against lethal disease. Biology Letters DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2009.0743

Abstract

Social insects defend their own colonies and some species also protect their mutualist partners. In mutualisms with aphids, ants typically feed on honeydew produced by aphids and, in turn guard and shelter aphid colonies from insect natural enemies. Here we report that Formica podzolica ants tending milkweed aphids, Aphis asclepiadis, protect aphid colonies from lethal fungal infections caused by an obligate aphid pathogen, Pandora neoaphidis.

Insect-Plant Biology
By L.M. Schoonhoven, T. Jermy, and J.J.A. Van Loon
Chapman and Hall, 1998
An excellent book for understanding plant and insect interactions.

Coexistence of three specialist aphids on common milkweed, Asclepias syriaca.
By Smith, R.A., K.A. Mooney, A.A. Agrawal.
Ecology. 89(8): 2187-2196., 2008
Smith, R.A., K.A. Mooney, A.A. Agrawal. 2008. Coexistence of three specialist aphids on common milkweed, Asclepias syriaca. Ecology. 89(8): 2187-2196.

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Coexistence of host-specific herbivores on plants is believed to be governed by interspecific interactions, but few empirical studies have systematically unraveled these dynamics. We investigated the role of several factors in promoting coexistence among the aphids Aphis nerii, Aphis asclepiadis, and Myzocallis asclepiadis that all specialize on common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca). Competitive exclusion is thought to occur when interspecific competition is stronger than intraspecific competition.

Population growth and sequestration of plant toxins along a gradient of specialization in four aphid spp. on common milkweed.
By Züst, T. & A.A. Agrawal.
Functional Ecology doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.12523 pp. 1-10., 2015
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Züst, T. & A.A. Agrawal. 2015. Population growth and sequestration of plant toxins along a gradient of specialization in four aphid species on the common milkweed Asclepias syriaca. Functional Ecology doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.12523 pp. 1-10.

Summary

1. Dietary specialization in insect herbivores has long been hypothesized to predict tolerance of plant defenses, with more specialized herbivores being highly tolerant of and sometimes sequestering plant secondary compounds. Plant variation in secondary compounds should thus play an important and predictable role in shaping the performance and distribution of insect communities.

Adventive aphids (Hemiptera: Aphididae) of America north of Mexico
By Foottit R.G., Halbert S.E., Miller G.L., Maw E., Russell L.M.
Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. 108: 583-610, 2006
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Data on 262 aphid spp. considered adventive in our area.

An update to the adventive aphids (Hemiptera: Aphidoidea) of America North of Mexico, with notes on intercepted species
By Skvarla M.J., Halbert S.E., Foottit R.G., Jensen A.S., Maw E., Miller G.L.
Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. 119: 90‒111 , 2017

Aphids (Homoptera: Aphidoidea) of the Yukon
By R. Foottit & E. Maw
H.V. Danks & J.A. Downes (Eds.), Insects of the Yukon. Biological Survey of Canada (Terrestrial Arthropods), Ottawa: 387 – 404, 1997
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Detailed accounts of >100 spp. recorded or expected to occur in the Yukon Territory (distribution, habitats, host plants) with insight into the composition and origins of the fauna.

Aphids on the World's Trees : an Identification and Information Guide.
By Blackman and Eastop
CAB International in association with The Natural History Museum, 1994

 
 
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