Insect and Spider Identification: CLOSED: ID please, 1 by wallaby1

wallaby1 wrote:
That looks similar to a greenfly I found today on a rose bud. Normally I would expect to see tiny greenflies as the bud emerges from it's protective cover, they are somehow laid within the cover before it opens.

This looked very different, the adult one has blackish legs and appeared to be laying young in rows on a bud already emerged. The usual greenfly don't have black legs.

The black spike at the bottom end looks like the ovipositor, or egg laying mechanism. The green one I have has two black things near the rear, not sure what they are.

I would say it is an aphid of some sort.