Some ants treat their own infections by eating aphids containing an antiseptic ingredient. In previous laboratory experiments, silky ants (Formica fusca) with fungal infections chose to eat food laced ...

For example, the Allegheny mound ant (Formica exsectoides), native to eastern North America ... look closer. You’ll likely find aphids, the true culprits. Ants often protect, or “farm,” aphids in ...

72, No. 1, Mar., 1989 Impact of the Imported Fire Ant on Labor... Impact of the Imported Fire Ant on Laboratory Populations of Cotton Aphid (Aphis gossypii) Predators This is the metadata section.

Rose growers will be familiar with the blight of rose aphids – small sap-sucking insects that love to feed on new growth in roses, quickly appearing out of nowhere and breeding until they seem ...

Insecticide efficacy rankings based on consensus of Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, and Southern entomologists. Authored by Tom Kuhar, Helene Doughty, Kelly McIntyre (Virginia Tech); Jim Walgenbach (NC State ...

Aphids are little sap-sucking insects that secrete honeydew, a sugary liquid that is the waste product of their diet. Many aphid species are known to engage in a mutualistic relationship with ants ...

This aphid (Eriosoma lanigerum) arrived in Britain in the 18th century and is now very common. Woolly aphids feed on apples and ornamentals that are closely related, such as crab apples, chaenomeles, ...

In the wild, sugars come from flower nectar and honeydew produced by aphids. Wasp larvae also produce a sugary liquid that the adults consume. ‘There is also a lot of sugar at pubs and picnics. Adult ...

Let us talk about the sex life of the aphids in your garden. It's a short talk, because aphids mostly never have one. Jackie French is an Australian author, historian, ecologist and honourary ...