This soft-bodied, pear-shaped insect may be solid pink, green and pink mottled, or light green with a dark stripe. Weeds such as ragweed, lambsquarters, jimsonweed, pigweed, shepherd’s purse, and wild lettuce are also common food plants. Some important cultivated hosts include potato, tomato, eggplant, sunflower, pepper, pea, bean, apple, turnip, corn, sweet potato, asparagus, clover, and rose. Potato aphids infest a wide range of host plants. They are common visitors to home vegetable gardens in South Carolina.
Carner, and P.A.C Ooi, Insects and their Natural Enemies Associated with Vegetables and Soybean in Southeast Asia, Potato aphids ( Macrosiphum euphorbiae) occur throughout North America. Potato aphid infestation ( Macrosiphum euphorbiae).
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