Aphids and their environment

Aphids and their environment

Aphids are at the centre of an ecosystem with high biological diversity. The high density of their colonies makes them a target as fodder species used as food by many natural enemies, predators or parasites. Studies on interactions between the aphids and their environment is essential if we are to develop control-strategy alternatives to chemical methods.

Aphids, at the heart of a highly biodiverse ecosystem 
pucerons et milieu
The parasitoid Aphidius colemani  can lay up to 300 eggs
The  ladybird Hippodamia variegata can eat several hundred aphids
Hippodamia variegata : larve dévorant une larve de puceron
Erynia neoaphidis cause epizootics 
Erynia neoaphidis sur Sitobion avenae