‘The aphid, believed to be related to the black bean aphid species, feeds on the underside of young buddleia leaves' with the ...

They are also the bane of hymenopterists, because they will eat aphids, parasitoid larva and all. A black bean aphid parasitized by Diaeretiella rapae, which lays it eggs in many species of aphids.

Ecological genetics is the study of genetics in natural field populations. It focuses on traits involved in interactions between and within species, and between an organism and its environment ...

Tim Crabb (UK) focuses on the moment a mite predates an aphid nymph. Spotting a whirligig mite near a group of black bean aphid nymphs on a plant stem, Tim focused in, ready to capture the moment the ...

Beans can also be vulnerable to black bean aphid which may require an insecticide treatment to be used. Over the past two years the Soil Regenerative group have overcome many of these problems and ...