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Goldenglow Aphid Aphid
Uroleucon rudbeckiae
40.5168, -86.8046
Field Notes
Description:
Red aphids showing different stages of development, white cast off exoskeletions and black cornicles. These aphids don't get the red coloring from food, they manufacture their own carotenoids using a gene they got from fungi. http://www.sapiengames.com/2010/04/30/aphids-fungi-and-horizontal-gene-…
Habitat:
on Asteraceae leaves
Notes:
aphids reproduce parthenogenically resulting in female populations until Fall when some sexual females and males are produced. Eggs are produced that over-winter
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