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Bird Cherry-oat Aphid

Rhopalosiphum padi

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) everettdaugherty, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

28 photos

Study shows up to four per card, from different observers, so you learn the species rather than one picture. Heart the good ones and swap any you do not like.

Photos you add are credited to you, and you keep the copyright.

Easily confused with

Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.

Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 60, February 44, March 69, April 109, May 158, June 172, July 184, August 158, September 116, October 87, November 47, December 37.
United States2,035
Alaska1,242
Canada1,178
Ontario521
Illinois283
Alberta182
British Columbia122
Quebec111
New York83
Nunavut60

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Physical

  • ExoskeletonHas a hard external skeletonFrom its classification

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumArthropods · Arthropoda
ClassInsects · Insecta
OrderTrue Bugs, Hoppers, Aphids, and allies · Hemiptera
FamilyAphids · Aphididae
GenusCherry-Grass Aphids · Rhopalosiphum

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Bird Cherry-oat Aphid with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.