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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) » Woolly Aphids and Gall-making Aphids (Eriosomatinae) » Pemphigini » Grylloprociphilus » Beech Blight Aphid (Grylloprociphilus imbricator)
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Seeking each other's companionship - Grylloprociphilus imbricator
Copyright © 2011 Beatriz Moisset

Seeking each other's companionship - Grylloprociphilus imbricator
Pennypack Restoration Trust, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA
July 16, 2011
Apparently these aphids are capable of fighting predators, that is why they need each other. There is power in numbers. This was the only colony I saw in the area, although there were many beech trees.
See video of dancing aphids, their way to warn predators.

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Contributed by Beatriz Moisset on 19 July, 2011 - 2:09pm
Last updated 28 February, 2021 - 4:02pm

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