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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 » Aphidini » Aphidina » Aphis » Subgenus Aphis (Aphis Subgenus Aphis) » Aphis asclepiadis
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Aphids on milkweed, tended by ant - Aphis asclepiadis
Copyright © 2006 tom murray

Aphids on milkweed, tended by ant - Aphis asclepiadis
Topsham, Orange County, Vermont, USA
August 8, 2006
The small aphids are 1mm, the winged one is 2mm, and the ant is 3.2mm
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Contributed by tom murray on 12 August, 2006 - 9:17am
Last updated 2 December, 2009 - 4:45pm

The ant is [i]Tapinoma sessil
The ant is Tapinoma sessile.
… James C. Trager, 1 June, 2011 - 1:52pm login or register to post comments

The ant is [i]Taapinoma sessi
The ant is Taapinoma sessile.
… James C. Trager, 1 June, 2011 - 1:52pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Aphids... tentatively--this is the closest of the three milkweed-feeding species I know about.
… Charley Eiseman, 1 December, 2009 - 8:18pm login or register to post comments

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