Asian woolly hackberry aphid
Shivaphis celti
The Asian woolly hackberry aphid is a tiny, soft insect that lives on hackberry trees. It is a true bug, with a mouth like a little straw. It pokes that straw into plants to drink their sap.
Lives in
Asia
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless to people. It cannot bite or sting.
What does it eat?
It sucks sweet sap from plants, especially hackberry trees.
How fast is it?
Asian woolly hackberry 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 belongs to the true bugs, a big group of insects with straw-like mouths.
2
Its name tells us it comes from Asia and lives on hackberry trees.
3
It is an aphid, one of the tiny sap-sucking insects that gardeners often find on plants.
you asked
Most asked questions about Asian woolly hackberry aphid
?What does the Asian woolly hackberry aphid eat?
It sucks sap from plants, especially hackberry trees.
?Is the Asian woolly hackberry aphid harmful to people?
No. It is harmless to people.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Shivaphis celti
- Group
- True bugs and cicadas
- Family
- Aphididae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hemiptera > Aphididae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Shivaphis celti (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 KKPCW. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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