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1. Bacterial Gut Symbionts Are Tightly Linked With The Evolution Of Herbivory In Ants

   Tue, 1 Dec 2009

   …extra-floral nectar; others feed on the processed plant sap excreted by plant-sucking insects such as scale insects and aphids . Herbivorous ants are likely to be a highly under-estimated component of the global fauna as there are many tropical forest …

2. New Insights Into The Physiology Of Cockroaches

   Fri, 13 Nov 2009

   …and B. pennsylvanicus) and compared them to endosymbiont genomes from other insects with very specialized diets, such as aphids . These studies show that, by completely independent evolutionary pathways and most likely due to their omnivorous habits …

3. Agriculture Department Says Pennsylvania Is Free of Plum Pox Virus in Fruit Trees; All Quarantines Lifted

   Thu, 29 Oct 2009

   …University, industry and USDA, today we can declare plum pox eradicated from Pennsylvania." Native to Europe and spread by aphids , Plum Pox Virus affects plants in the genus Prunus , or stone fruits, including fruit-bearing and ornamental varieties of …

REFERENCE LIBRARY

1. House Finch

   Fri, 16 May 2008

   …berries, being voracious consumers of weed seeds such as nettle and dandelion. They also take incidental small insects such as aphids . They are frequent visitors to feeders throughout the year, particularly if stocked with sunflower or niger seed, and will …

2. Ant

   Mon, 12 Sep 2005

   …fall to the ground, but around ants it is kept for them to collect. The ants in turn keep predators away and will move the aphids around to better feeding locations.Myrmecophilous or ant-loving caterpillars (blues, coppers, or hairstreaks) are herded …

3. Aphid

   Mon, 12 Sep 2005

   Aphids or greenfly, plant lice (superfamily Aphidoidea ……10 mm). Of the 4,000 species of known aphids (distributed in 10 families), around ……ladybirds, hoverfly larvae and lacewings. Aphids have two compound eyes and two ocular tubercles …