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gardenerjulesdz Macomb, MI May 20, 2007

Does anyone know what this is? Will they cause any harm?
There are hundreds of these on one plant. Any help would be so appreciated. Thanks

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trackinsand mid central, FL(Zone 9a) May 20, 2007

it's a nymph of some kind of beetle or true bug. they usually aren't good. depending on what kind of plant it's on, i would spray with safer soap or neem oil.

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wallaby1 Lincoln, United Kingdom(Zone 8a) May 20, 2007

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.

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wallaby1 Lincoln, United Kingdom(Zone 8a) May 20, 2007

How about red aphid?

look at the bottom left link,

http://aolsearch.aol.co.uk/aol/image?query='red%20aphid'&invocationType=imageTab

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wallaby1 Lincoln, United Kingdom(Zone 8a) May 20, 2007

Does this look right?

http://nathistoc.bio.uci.edu/hemipt/Uroleucon.htm

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