Spiraea aphid
The spiraea aphid is a tiny green bug that lives in groups on plants. It has a dark brown head and a bright yellow-green or apple green body. It sucks juice from fresh young buds, shoots and leaves.
How fast is it?
Fun facts
It can live on more than 65 different groups of plants.
For most of the year the mothers have babies all by themselves, without any fathers.
It travels to new countries hidden on fruit and garden plants. It reached Denmark in 2019.
Farmers do not like it, because it harms citrus and apple trees and spreads plant illnesses.
It does not like the cold, so it does not live in the coldest parts of the world.
Most asked questions about Spiraea aphid
?Are spiraea aphids harmful?
Not to people. But they can hurt citrus and apple trees and spread plant illnesses.
?What do spiraea aphids eat?
They suck juice from young buds, shoots and leaves of many different plants.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Aphis spiraecola
- Named by
- Patch, 1914
- Group
- True bugs and cicadas
- Family
- Aphididae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hemiptera > Aphididae
- Lives on
- Asia, Africa, North America, Europe, Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Green citrus aphid, Spirea aphid, Apple aphid
Where the facts come from
- Aphis spiraecola (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 Marco de Haas. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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