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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 » Macrosiphini » Uroleucon » Subgenus Uroleucon (Uroleucon Subgenus Uroleucon) » Uroleucon sonchellum
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Aphids - Uroleucon sonchellum
Copyright © 2006 Chuck Entz

Aphids - Uroleucon sonchellum
Encino, Los Angeles County, California, USA
April 15, 2006
Size: 1/8 inch
On Sow Thistle (Sonchus oleraceus) in my front yard.
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Contributed by Chuck Entz on 15 April, 2006 - 10:24pm
Last updated 14 October, 2009 - 1:53am

Moved
Moved from Aphids.
… Charley Eiseman, 14 October, 2009 - 1:53am login or register to post comments

The big one
almost looks like it is giving birth to another.
Carla Finley
Venice, FL
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… Carla Finley, 15 April, 2006 - 10:30pm login or register to post comments

 
IT IS!!!
it IS giving birth. aphids are vivaporous, meaning that they give live birth. evry one of those 'little' aphids is a clone of the mother. only when the aphid 'colony' is overcrowded will the female leave and then find a mate and mate.
its awesome. aphids have such a complicated reproductive cycle
… Omar Fahmy, 15 April, 2006 - 10:33pm login or register to post comments

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