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Fig. 41 Aphid . Winged female.

aphid

any member of the family Aphididae, order Hemiptera, commonly called green fly. Aphids feed on plant juices by using piercing and sucking mouthparts and are of considerable economic importance because they can act as vectors of plant viruses. See Fig. 41 .
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Effect of Intra-Guild Predation and Sub Lethal Concentrations of Insecticides on the Predation of Coccinellids
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Aphid Identification and Counting Based on Smartphone and Machine Vision
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Control of cabbage aphid Brevicoryne brassicae (Homoptera: Aphididae) through allelopathic water extracts
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Aphids were collected from respective host plants with the help of suction pump brought in the laboratory and placed into freezer at temperature 0C in plastic container (20A-8 cm) for 24 hrs.
BIOLOGY OF COCCINELLA TRANSVERSALIS FAB. ON APHIS NERII UNDER LABORATORY CONDITIONS
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Keywords: Episyrphus balteatus; Development; Predation; Aphids; Cropland.
Developmental Duration and Predatory Efficiency of Episyrphus balteatus on Four Aphid Species in Pakistan

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