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aphid

[ UK /ˈe‍ɪfɪd/ ]
[ US /ˈæfəd, ˈeɪfəd/ ]
NOUN
  1. any of various small plant-sucking insects

How To Use aphid In A Sentence

  • It feeds on aphids with a single-minded ferocity. Times, Sunday Times
  • However, last year corn leaf aphids remained abundant in some field after tasseling, and the feeding appeared to cause death of the tissues fed upon.
  • Unlike the more familiar and common pea aphid, relatively few spotted alfalfa aphids can significantly reduce the growth of alfalfa, particularly in new seedings.
  • They play a vital role in the food chain by eating aphids, which can cause havoc to crops. The Sun
  • Communication of aphid attack between plants has recently been shown to involve other volatiles.
  • He looked for evidence of wasp parasitism by counting the 'mummies'—the golden, hardened carcasses of aphids that had become homes for wasp larvae.
  • Under the microscope the slide was found to be covered with a mass of raphides. Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891
  • Aphids - these small bugs are green in the East, pink in the West, and can suck the life out of rosebuds and tender stems.
  • Feeding on a milkweed leaf, tiny aphids (some winged, some wingless) are ‘tended’ by an ant, which feeds on the sweet honeydew excreted by the aphids.
  • When we talk about pests in the garden, we generally mean things like aphids, caterpillars and rabbits that we can see and deal with appropriately.
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