Black cherry aphid
Myzus cerasi
The black cherry aphid is a tiny, shiny black bug that lives on cherry trees. It has yellow and black legs and feelers. Lots of them crowd together on the fresh tips of the branches.
Lives in
Europe and parts of Asia, on wild and garden cherry trees
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless to people. It only bothers cherry trees.
What does it eat?
It pokes its tiny beak into young cherry leaves and shoots and sucks the sap.
How fast is it?
Black cherry aphid about 0.01 km/h (0.01 mph)
A garden snail about 0.05 km/h (0.03 mph)
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It is a true bug, which means it has a mouth like a drinking straw for sucking plant sap.
2
Big groups of them make cherry leaves curl up and spoil the new leaves.
3
It lives on both wild cherry trees and cherries that people grow.
you asked
Most asked questions about Black cherry aphid
?Are black cherry aphids harmful?
They do not hurt people, but large groups can damage the young leaves of cherry trees.
?What does a black cherry aphid eat?
It sucks sap from the new shoots and leaves of cherry trees.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Myzus cerasi
- Named by
- Fabricius, 1775
- Group
- True bugs and cicadas
- Family
- Aphididae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hemiptera > Aphididae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
- Also known as
- Cherry blackfly
Where the facts come from
- Myzus cerasi (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by ML5. CC0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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