Aphid used in a sentence

Aphid in a sentence as a noun

So be an e-aphid and let the kindly e-ants farm you?

>Some farming ant species gather and store the aphid eggs in their nests over the winter.

* yellow aphids on milkweed* black aphids on yard-long beans* green aphids on lettuce

At various times, the aphids are raised, mutilated, drugged, and eaten.

The ants defend an aphid from another creature that eats/destroys the aphids so that the ants can eat it.

In Spring, I released 9000 lady bugs to ward off another aphid infestation, which ruined the trees last Summer.

Anyone who tells you ladybugs are terrible is probably just an aphid posing as a human to spread propaganda.

The extremely established ants in my garden allotment are advanced aphid ranchers!

It's an intentional use of aphids as a food source with what appears to be a methodology of breeding and sustaining their honeydew food source.

Indeed, ants have symbiotic relationships with a bunch of organisms, including fungus [2], aphids [3], and over 100 species of plants [4].

The average weevil is a tree's botfly burrowing beneath its skin and eating it from inside, an aphid is a vampire feeding on a flower's lifeblood, …

Canadian scientists pitted 'reduced-risk' organic and synthetic pesticides against each other in controlling a problematic pest, the soybean aphid.

They found that not only were the synthetic pesticides more effective means of control, the organic pesticides were more ecologically damaging, including causing higher mortality in other, non-target species like the aphid's predators.

That's fighting to protect their food source - something I consider "necessary for survival" and not "beneficial for survival".The case I cited where the ants will harvest the aphid eggs, store them safely for the winter, then bring them back to plants to hatch is along the lines of "beneficial for survival".

"Assuming the photosynthetic aphid hypothesis this makes for an interesting positive feedback loop with analogies in economics - when energy levels fall below a critical threshold the aphids are unable to synthesise the "metabolically expensive" cartenoids.

There are brown and green aphids and ants breeds them keeping a particular ratio - one aphid type makes honey that tastes great for them and the other aphid type with honey not that great but it secrets something onto plants which delays flowering and thus prevents plants from dying off earlier after flowering, thus increasing the value ants extracts from a plant.

"The body colour of Robichon's lab aphids is affected by environmental conditions, with the cold favouring green aphids, optimal conditions resulting in orange ones and white ones appearing when the population is large and faced with limited resources....Green aphids, which contain high levels of carotenoids, make significantly more ATP than do white ones, which are almost devoid of these pigments.

They found that not only were the synthetic pesticides more effective means of control, the organic pesticides were more ecologically damaging, including causing higher mortality in other, non-target species like the aphid's predatorsThis means organic farms cannot use a modern pesticide even when that pesticide is known to be safer, more efficient or more sustainable, purely on the grounds that it isn't a "natural" pesticide.