{"id":1025,"date":"2016-04-29T04:34:24","date_gmt":"2016-04-29T04:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/?page_id=1025"},"modified":"2024-12-17T19:42:58","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T19:42:58","slug":"plocamaphis","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/?page_id=1025","title":{"rendered":"Plocamaphis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Plocamaphis <\/em>Oestlund<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is small, apparently not well-understood genus, all species of which live on Salix<\/em> (i.e. willows).  There are a couple species known from North America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Plocamaphis flocculosa<\/em> (Weed)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As I travel around on work and pleasure, I often stop to look for aphids along roadsides, streams, and fields.  As the years have gone by I more commonly think to myself, “The odds I find something new here are practically zero.”  It was one of those days in 2013 that I stopped along a road and stream in central Oregon and pushed into the darkness of a willow thicket.  There, to my surprise, was a great big aphid, covered in wax, with impossibly orange siphunculi.  It is the only time I’ve seen it despite collecting avidly on willows for over 25 years.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Plocamaphis flocculosa from the central Oregon forest in May. This is the normal waxy covering.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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\"Plocamaphis<\/a>
Plocamaphis flocculosa from the same place, lacking the normal wax coating. It is probably a young adult that has not fully developed the wax.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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\"Plocamaphis<\/a>
Plocamaphis flocculosa alate vivipara with a full complement of wax.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Plocamaphis Oestlund This is small, apparently not well-understood genus, all species of which live on Salix (i.e. willows).  There are a couple species known from North America. Plocamaphis flocculosa (Weed) As I travel around on work and pleasure, I often stop to look for aphids along roadsides, streams, and fields.  As the years have gone […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":741,"menu_order":16,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1025","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1025"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2244,"href":"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1025\/revisions\/2244"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}