Rice root aphid
The rice root aphid is a tiny soft bug that drinks plant juice through a beak like a straw. It spends part of its life on elm trees and part of it down at the roots of grasses and grain plants.
How fast is it?
Fun facts
It moves house every year, from elm trees to the roots of grasses and back again.
The mother lays her eggs in an elm leaf. The leaf then grows a little bump, called a gall, and the babies live and feed inside it.
When the babies grow up they get wings and fly off to find grass roots.
Most asked questions about Rice root aphid
?What does the rice root aphid eat?
It drinks plant sap, first from elm leaves and later from the roots of grasses and grain plants.
?Where does the rice root aphid come from?
It probably comes from Asia, but now it also lives in southern Europe and the United States.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Tetraneura akinire
- Group
- True bugs and cicadas
- Family
- Aphididae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hemiptera > Aphididae
- Lives on
- Asia, Europe, North America
- Also known as
- Oriental grass root aphid
Where the facts come from
- Tetraneura akinire (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 peterwchen. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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