aphid
Noun
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Any of various small plant-sucking insects (synset 102254878)
is a type of: louse, plant louse - any of several small insects especially aphids that feed by sucking the juices from plantssubtypes:
- aphis pomi, apple aphid, green apple aphid - bright green aphid; feeds on and causes curling of apple leaves
- aphis fabae, bean aphid, blackfly - blackish aphid that infests e.g. beans and sugar beets
- greenfly - greenish aphid; pest on garden and crop plants
- ant cow - excretes a honeylike substance eaten by ants
- woolly aphid, woolly plant louse - secretes a waxy substance like a mass of fine curly white cotton or woolly threads
belongs to: aphidoidea, superfamily aphidoidea - plant lice
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