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Destructive Plant Lice, or Aphids 



Continued from page IG 

 of the poi-soning. It is often malformed 

 and usually hangs on the branches 

 longer than normally. 



The stem mothers of the Rosy Aphis 

 hatch very early in the spring and soon 

 push their way into the swelling buds. 

 Sonu-times a dozen and more of the 

 minute green lice, blueish with a coat- 

 ing of whitish ])ow(ler, can be found 

 within a single bud. The second-gen- 

 eration females (juickly curl the leaves, 

 making their control b> spraying them 

 practically im])ossible. The pupae of 

 Ihe winged generation are yellowish 

 pink in color, but the adult migrants 

 iiave a black thorax like that of the 

 Green Aphis. The entire life cycle i.s 

 supposedly spent on apple trees. The 

 males, appearing in late fall, are 

 winged, resembling the migrants, but 

 the true females are wingless. The 

 eggs of this species are laid near buds 

 rather than on the open bark. Un- 

 doubtedly this is one of the most 

 serious of orchard i)ests, ruining mil- 

 lions of dollars" worth of fruit. It is 

 comiiaratively a newcomer in the 

 Xorthwest, having been introduced in 

 the egg-stage on imported nursery 

 stock, but it is yearly extending its 

 range and destructiveness. 



The Alfalfa or Clover Aphis has a 

 more complicated life history. In early 

 spring this species is an orchard insect, 

 developing from eggs usually laid on 

 apple trees. The stem mothers arc 

 .greeni.sh, mottled with red, and hatch 

 very early in the season. As before, 

 there is the usual second generation of 

 wingless, parthenogenetic, viviparous 

 females, followed by the winged third 

 generation. These migrants leave the 

 winter host plants to seek clover or 

 alfalfa, and their pinki.sh colored 

 descendants are destructive summer 

 pests of these field crops. In the fall 

 of the year another generation of 

 winged lice appears, the returning 

 uugi-ants, which seek the orchards, and 

 there give parthenogenetic birth to the 

 sexed males and females. Here is ex- 

 hibited Nature's further provision to 

 take care during the winter of a field 

 insect which otherwise would perish 

 in excessive numbers if remaining on 

 the ground. 



II is extremely difficult to trace the 

 wanderings of migrating jilant lice, so 

 Ihe wonder is that students have al- 

 ready learned the life histories of the 

 large series of species known. Some 

 of our commonest species lead a dual. 

 (11- belter a multi])le. life, devastating a 

 large number of plants. The common- 

 est ])each aphid has a list of a hundred 

 summer plants, some roadside weeds 

 and some growing in our gardens. The 

 hop aphid winters on plum trees, or 

 where they cannot be found, the re- 

 luining migrants of the fall select cot- 

 hinwoods or willows. The wheat aphid 

 survives Ihe winter on apiile or other 

 Irees. It woidd therefore follow thai 

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