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やぎ

#WednesdayWisdom 🌿 #知見の水曜日
おはよう御座います

Fades into winter, #aphids develop wings and take flight.🪽

During spring and summer, they reproduce asexually, giving birth to live young. However, as plants begin to wither, they switch to sexual reproduction and search for suitable places to lay their eggs. So, those brave souls flying in the cold winter wind are all #females.

　
冬になると #アブラムシ は翅がはえて飛びます🪽
春から夏は単為生殖ですが、植物の枯れる秋になると性生殖し産卵先を探すのです
だから冬の風に吹かれて飛ぶ #綿虫 は全て #メス ♀なんですね
#aiart #wrtn #copilot #snowflea

①«Generated by LeonardoDiffusion» (Image of "snow flea"), A snow flea dancing in the wind. It looks just like snow, but it is actually an aphid with wings. Ephemeral, beautiful and delicate.
②«Generated by nightcafestudio» A stunning macro image of a snow flea, or winged aphid, seemingly dancing in the gentle wind. The flea, appearing as pure snow, is captured in mid-flight with delicate, transparent wings spread wide. Beneath it, a soft, frosty landscape is visible, creating a serene and ephemeral atmosphere. The overall image is a masterful depiction of the fleeting beauty of nature, with a touch of surrealism.
③« Generated by MicrosoftDesigner » (A small, white woolly aphid with translucent wings, standing on a green leaf.), (Image of "snow flea"),A snow flea dancing in the wind. It looks just like snow, but it is actually an aphid with wings. Ephemeral, beautiful and delicate.
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mgerique

At first glance they may look like pollen or some kind of seed, but they are Aphis Nerii or oleander aphids. This species looks like characters from a Pixar movie.
iPhone 15 Pro main camera + the lens of binoculars used as reading glasses for close focusing.
Valencia, september 2024.
My other macros in:
instagram.com/mymacrominitips/

A primera vista pueden parecer polen o algún tipo de semilla, pero son Aphis Nerii o pulgones de la adelfa.
Los de esta especie parecen personajes de una película de Pixar.

Auf den ersten Blick sehen sie wie Pollen oder eine Art Samen aus, aber es handelt sich um Aphis nerii oder Oleanderläuse. Diese Art sieht aus wie kleine Figuren in einem Pixar-Film.

#macro #macrophotography
#insects #animals #nature
#shotonmobile
#aphids #aphisnerii

Oleander aphids on leaves that look like characters from a Pixar movie.
Oleander aphids on leaves that look like characters from a Pixar movie.
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neville park

Down by the lake the other day, my favourite willow was positively covered with large purple aphids making their way up the trunk—and the air was alive with swarms of tiny parasitoid wasps (family Braconidae) preying on them! Here is one injecting an egg into an aphid. The aphids become swollen husks as the wasp hatches, feeds, and pupates, eventually cutting a neat hole and emerging as an adult, ready to continue the cycle. I have never seen the wasps emerging but hope to one day.

#bugstodon #insects #wasps #aphids #parasitism • #Hymenoptera #Braconidae #Aphidiinae

On a willow trunk, a tiny shiny dark wasp with long antennae approaches a large blue-purple aphid.
The wasp begins to curl her abdomen forward underneath her.
Now folded double with her abdomen stretched out in front of her, the wasp approaches the aphid and injects an egg with her ovipositor.
A normal red-purple aphid flanked by two "aphid mummies", pale, glossy dead husks that became home to the developing wasps.
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Colin Purrington

September 7-15 is GALL WEEK, nature fans. #inaturalist #galls #wasps #insects #mites #aphids #flies #thrips #bacteria #fungi #plants #nature #GallWeek inaturalist.org/projects/gall-

iNaturalistGall Week September 2024Welcome to our 6th Gall Week event! Please add any new gall observations taken between September 7-15 to this project manually. Galls are structures induced by arthropods, fungi, and sometimes bacteria on plants. Please do not document here leaf miners or other evidence of feeding, unless they are gall-related. To participate, please join the project, document new observations between 9/7-15, and upload them manually to the project. Uploading observations can continue after the event ends as long as they were documented during that week. Don't forget to add information about the host plant - as a note, or even better, in the fields: Host and Host plant ID field. You can also link to the host plant observation, especially if you aren't sure what it was. Please do share your observations even if you are new to iNaturalist, and not sure yet how to use some of these features. If you're new to galling, you can check what are the best host plants in your area. You can use gall or insect b...
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llewelly

thought for the day: What if the domestication of aphids by ants ended in extinction of an ant species many times, due to ants eating way too much sugar, and it's just chance that a relative few lucky ant species had the right metabolism to flourish on the high-sugar diet resulting from aphid domestication?

(Presumably applies to domestication of other sap-feeders that have high sugar output.)

#ants
#aphids
#domestication
#extinction

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