Vetch aphid
The vetch aphid is a large green aphid with a round belly. Its head, legs and feelers are black, and its eyes are red. It sucks juice from vetch, peas and broad beans.
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Fun facts
It has red eyes, which look bright against its green body.
Its eggs are laid at the bottom of the plant and hatch in spring. Later the mothers give birth to live babies, like most aphids.
After three generations, aphids with wings are born, and they fly off to find new plants.
In autumn the aphids move to the seed pods of the plant.
When it feeds, the leaf grows a swelling called a gall.
Most asked questions about Vetch aphid
?What does the vetch aphid eat?
It sucks sap from vetch, peas and broad beans.
?Does the vetch aphid have wings?
Some do and some do not. Winged aphids appear after a few generations and fly to new plants.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Megoura viciae
- Named by
- Buckton, 1876
- Group
- True bugs and cicadas
- Family
- Aphididae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hemiptera > Aphididae
- Lives on
- Europe, Africa, North America
Where the facts come from
- Megoura viciae (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 S. Rae from Scotland, UK. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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