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Re: Aphids

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Wish I could multiply the lady bugs that fast?  They love the aphids.
Cathy

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From: "the Bobisuthis" <bobshy@concentric.net>
To: "Square Foot Gardening List" <sqft@listbot.com>
Sent: Friday, April 21, 2000 11:35 AM
Subject: Aphids


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> My kids get postings everyday from a site with "cool facts". I thought you
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> Melody
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> What insect has the shortest generation time?
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> The insect with the shortest known generation time (the time from one
> stage in its life cycle until the same stage in its offspring's life
> cycle) is the apple grain aphid (Rhopalosiphum prunifoliae/fitchii),
> which can bear live young only 4.7 days after being born.
>
> Other kinds of aphids are almost as prolific, bearing live young
> anywhere from five to seven days after being born.  Such rapid-
> breeding aphids are parthenogenetic mothers, meaning that when
> conditions are good they bear genetically identical clones of
> themselves without mating.  They are so prolific that when they are
> born they already carry the embryos of their first children.
>
> Now you know how those huge colonies of aphids seem to materialize
> almost overnight on the roses.
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> The apple grain aphid:
> http://everest.ento.vt.edu/Fruitfiles/AGA.html
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> The closely related corn leaf aphid (Rhopalosiphum maidis):
> http://ipmwww.ncsu.edu/AG271/small_grains/corn_leaf_aphid.html
>
> A short research paper about the study that revealed today's Cool Fact:
> http://gnv.ifas.ufl.edu/~tjw/chap06.htm
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> More Cool Facts about insects:
> http://www.cool-fact.com/archive/1998/07/21.html
> http://www.cool-fact.com/archive/1998/10/13.html
> http://www.cool-fact.com/archive/1998/12/10.html
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