Talk:Aphid

Aphid has been listed as one of the Natural sciences good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.

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Date	Process	Result
December 15, 2012	Good article nominee	Not listed
April 26, 2018	Good article nominee	Listed

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on May 11, 2018.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that aphids (pictured) are sometimes farmed by ants?

Current status: Good article

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Ants farm aphids....[edit]

I had no idea. Very interesting. Shit like this is why I read Wikipedia every day. Eric Cable ! Talk 12:05, 11 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Role in the potato famine[edit]

@Chiswick Chap: This had been in the article for 10 years citing this book that was published alongside a Discovery Channel show. I can't conclusively demonstrate it is incorrect, but aphids are most certainly not an important vector for blight - the wind takes care of that perfectly well. I can only presume that the author was confusing blight with potato curl which occurred in a similar era and was spread by aphids. SmartSE (talk) 23:06, 15 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I'd tend to concur about the confusion of one disease with another; I hadn't noticed the bit about blight in this article before, it does not seem legitimate. Dyanega (talk) 23:33, 15 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Agree. This also shows why more eyes are needed at GA reviews. Would also not consider Animal Planet/Discovery Channel as a reliable source. Shyamal (talk) 01:14, 16 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Fair enough. Chiswick Chap (talk) 05:44, 16 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Equatorial zone reproduction?[edit]

In the section on reproduction we get a thorough explanation of how aphids cope with seasonality; they breed asexually all summer, then have a sexual generation in autumn, with the eggs overwintering. What happens near the equator, where there is no pronounced seasonality? Do they continue asexually forever? Is there a cue that causes a sexual generation? We need an expert to write a little bit more here. Dean1954 (talk) 10:46, 6 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thelaxidae, missing family?[edit]

we have one red link to Thelaxidae. Validity of this name. Possible genuses are: Glyphina and Thelaxes, IRMNG also gives a fossil one: Gondvanoaphis Wegierek & Grimaldi, 2010--Estopedist1 (talk) 18:51, 30 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Where do you see this red link? There is no such link on the Aphid page. Dyanega (talk) 21:16, 30 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]