Subject: RE: Team Peep Show - The SequelOK, one of my many assignments is to do profiles on three pests of my choice...number one is the aphid...because they are everywhere.

cool thing here is that these guys are going down...see the tan round guys? The are aphids too-they are just skeletons of their former selves. They have been parasitized by a aphidiid wasp...it laid an egg inside it, which became a larvae who ate the aphid alive from the inside...the larvae then pupates and bores it's way out of the aphid's exoskeleton as an adult...then goes forth and parasitizes hundreds of aphids every day. Yep, those aphids are all goners.
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