Rose aphid
The rose aphid is a tiny soft bug, green, pink or reddish brown, that lives on rose bushes. It has two little black tubes sticking out of its back end, like tiny exhaust pipes. In early summer, big crowds of them sit on the tips of rose shoots and buds.
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Fun facts
In spring, the babies that hatch are all girls, and they can have babies without any boys. That is why a colony grows so fast.
Most rose aphids have no wings, but in summer some grow wings and fly to new plants.
They spend the winter as eggs on rose bushes.
They make a sticky sweet goo called honeydew, and black mould likes to grow on it.
The most rose aphids are found in June and July, just when the roses bloom.
Most asked questions about Rose aphid
?Are rose aphids harmful?
Not to people. They can twist rose leaves and flowers and make them sticky.
?What do rose aphids eat?
They suck sap from roses, especially from new shoots and flower buds.
?How big is a rose aphid?
Very small, only about 2 to 3.5 millimetres long.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Macrosiphum rosae
- Group
- True bugs and cicadas
- Family
- Aphididae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hemiptera > Aphididae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Australia and Oceania
Where the facts come from
- Macrosiphum rosae (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Rhododendrites. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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