Lupine aphid
The lupine aphid is a tiny soft bug, grey or green, that lives on lupin plants. It is quite big for an aphid. Lots and lots of them can crowd onto one plant and drink its juice.
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Fun facts
It comes from North America, but in 1981 people found it in Britain for the first time. Now it lives in many places there.
When too many lupine aphids live on a lupin, the plant can wilt and flop over.
In Britain it may have no natural enemies, so there is nobody to stop their numbers from growing.
Most asked questions about Lupine aphid
?What does the lupine aphid eat?
It drinks the juice of lupin plants. A big crowd of them can make a lupin wilt.
?Where does the lupine aphid come from?
It comes from North America. It was first seen in Britain in 1981 and has spread there.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Macrosiphum albifrons
- Group
- True bugs and cicadas
- Family
- Aphididae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hemiptera > Aphididae
- Lives on
- North America, Europe
- Also known as
- Lupin aphid
Where the facts come from
- Macrosiphum albifrons (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 Whitney Cranshaw, Colorado State University, Bugwood.org. CC BY 3.0 us, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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