aphides

Marigold Tagetes – this flower loves the sun and the summer and we used to plant it in the vegetable garden to keep away aphides and other bugs.

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They are of great service to the farmer and gardener because their foods consists largely of plant-lice (aphides).

Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study Ontario. Ministry of Education

Search in the garden, orchard, and forest for plants attacked by aphides.

Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study Ontario. Ministry of Education

Carefully observe the lady-birds that are frequently found where there are aphides.

Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study Ontario. Ministry of Education

Watch the action of ants which are found among the aphides.

Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study Ontario. Ministry of Education

Direct the attention of the pupils to the difference between the male and female aphides; the males have wings, but the females are wingless.

Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study Ontario. Ministry of Education

Mealy-bugs also occasionally make a hurried visit to camellias when making their growth, as well as aphides.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 508, September 26, 1885 Various

The ants may be observed stroking the aphides with their feelers, causing the aphides to excrete a sweet fluid on which the ant feeds.

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Ants, especially, are very fond of this fluid, so that a line of aphides, extending from the base to the summit of a leaf, may frequently be observed slowly advancing toward the orifice of the cup, down which they disappear, never to return.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 508, September 26, 1885 Various

In September obtain leaves of sweet-pea, apple, rose bush, maple, oak, turnip, etc., on which the insects are feeding; also provide specimens of woolly aphides on the bark of apple trees or stems of goldenrod or alder.

Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study Ontario. Ministry of Education