Talk:Aphid

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Contents 1 White oil 2 Getting rid of aphids 3 Part of All of Their Life? 4 Removal of links 5 Interesting fact section 6 changes! 7 Vandalism

[edit] White oil

does white oil kill aphids? i have heard it does but am unsure. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 61.68.165.192 (talk • contribs) 14:33, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Getting rid of aphids

Could someone please explain how to get RID of these beasts? We have them in the laboratory - and no, it's not a zoology departments, we work in Botany - THANKS. massa 08:14, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

mix together a soap solution (preferably using a high posphate soap) and spray aphids. You will probably want to wash plants an hour after application. Do this a couple of times and your aphids will be gone. This is the approach we took to manageing aphids in our greenhouse when I was working at the Univ. of Wisconsin. JorjGaidin 14:14, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Part of All of Their Life?

I was browsing through, and I stumbled upon the second sentence in the "Reproduction" section.

For part of all of their life, aphids are often found to be parthenogenetic.

I can't make heads or tails of what that means: Aphids are partially always often parthenogenetic?? Someone knowledgable should rewrite that so it makes sense. I'd fix it myself, but I don't know the first thing about aphid reproduction. - Rynne 19:07, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

What I don't get: Most parthenogenic species' unfertilised eggs produce male offspring -> this would mean an increase in the number of fertilising individuals -> which would mean less unfertilised eggs -> which means more females to produce eggs -> increase in population.

But, aphids are the opposite. Unfertilised eggs become female -> leading to more females -> leading to more unfertilised eggs. So then why are there still male aphids?

—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 128.250.6.246 (talk • contribs) 19:21, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Removal of links

An anonymous user, User:75.117.87.140 (talk contribs) has removed a number of links from the article (diff) anyone who's more knowledgeable on the topic, please review the edit and revert what's relevant. -- intgr 07:12, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

I checked it out, and I think it was unwarranted. I replaced all the links and images, and kept the updated information. --Iamunknown 04:19, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

Thank you very much for restoring, I myself wanted to restore but had forgotten.. thanks again. --vineeth 13:55, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Interesting fact section

whats mentioned in the "interesting fact" section is already mentioned in the article. 87.69.103.82 02:20, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] changes!

I made a few changes to the anatomy and the beginning of the reproduction sections of this article. I tried to clean up some of the wording and conjecture about what is most interesting or most typical of aphids (stylets are not unique to aphids). I was afraid to delete large sections, but I feel the long description about Aphis rosae is not really appropriate for a general article on aphids (it also sounds like it was taken from a gardening book not an encyclopedia).

The other two examples seem more appropriate for individual articles about particular species (the cabbage aphid mention is basically worthless).

The gallery is pretty limited, are there other pictures that display more diversity of aphids?? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rddb (talk • contribs) 18:47, August 24, 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism

Someone has vandalized this page (see "philip is awesome") —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.169.102.38 (talk) 18:36, 17 February 2008 (UTC)