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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 » Rhopalosiphina » Rhopalosiphum » Bird Cherry Oat Aphid (Rhopalosiphum padi)
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Aphid - Rhopalosiphum padi
Copyright © 2006 tom murray

Aphid - Rhopalosiphum padi
Boxborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
October 25, 2006
Size: 1.5mm
Found on some grass.
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Contributed by tom murray on 26 October, 2006 - 9:29pm
Last updated 28 February, 2023 - 10:08am

Moved
Moved from Aphids.
… Charley Eiseman, 1 December, 2009 - 5:26pm login or register to post comments

Does the dark color
indicate that this has been parasitized? Is that what we see inside the body?
… john and jane balaban, 19 February, 2007 - 3:57pm login or register to post comments

 
I'm not sure
It was alive and moving around.
… tom murray, 19 February, 2007 - 8:06pm login or register to post comments

 
Ah! So it comes in this color!
Maybe like your . It will be interesting to learn all these once we find an aphid expert to sort them out for us.
… john and jane balaban, 19 February, 2007 - 9:21pm login or register to post comments

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