Myzus persicae, commonly called the green peach aphid, is a small green aphid in the order Hemiptera, first described in 1776 and named for its association with peach trees. It feeds on peach and more than one hundred other plant species across some forty plant families, causing decreased growth, shrivelled leaves and tissue death, while the honeydew it excretes encourages the growth of mould on infested plants. Its greatest agricultural threat comes less from direct feeding than from its role as a vector: it can transmit more than one hundred different plant viruses, including cucumber mosaic virus, potato virus Y and potato leafroll virus, the last of which alone can cut potato yields by forty to seventy percent. With a generation time of only ten to twelve days and widespread resistance to insecticides, it is considered one of the world's most versatile and difficult to control aphid vectors.
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its native range is likely of Asia-Temperate origin
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Myzus persicae, commonly called the green peach aphid, is a small green aphid in the order Hemiptera, first described in 1776 and named for its association with peach trees.
Green Peach Aphid (Wikipedia)
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The worst damage on plants is in the early summertime for the aphid breeding peak, because winged dispersants from Prunus spp. where the egg of overwintering aphid stage deposit nymphs on summer hosts migrating to tobacco, potatoes and cruciferous vegetables to be harmful continuously after a few generations. == Distribution == The green peach aphid is found worldwide but is likely of Asian origin, much like its primary host plant, Prunus persica.
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The worst damage on plants is in the early summertime for the aphid breeding peak, because winged dispersants from Prunus spp. where the egg of overwintering aphid stage deposit nymphs on summer hosts migrating to tobacco, potatoes and cruciferous vegetables to be harmful continuously after a few generations. == Distribution == The green peach aphid is found worldwide but is likely of Asian origin, much like its primary host plant, Prunus persica.
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Myzus persicae, known as the green peach aphid, greenfly, or the peach-potato aphid, is a small green aphid belonging to the order Hemiptera.
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