"Interesting" Aphid
I spent a couple of hours today, happily searching through leaf-litter at a local Staffordshire churchyard. s usual, I was looking for springtails, but it's an environment that's rich in other interesting invertebrates.
Under one leaf I saw this aphid. I usually ignore these, but this one looked a bit different. It had four rows of these dark pigmentation patches along the length of its body. It was around 2mm long (excluding antennae). Not a species that I've seen before.
"Interesting" Aphid
I spent a couple of hours today, happily searching through leaf-litter at a local Staffordshire churchyard. s usual, I was looking for springtails, but it's an environment that's rich in other interesting invertebrates.
Under one leaf I saw this aphid. I usually ignore these, but this one looked a bit different. It had four rows of these dark pigmentation patches along the length of its body. It was around 2mm long (excluding antennae). Not a species that I've seen before.