Origin:
1849, Englished from Modern Latin aphides, plural of aphis, coined by Linnaeus (1758), though where he got it and why he applied it to the plant louse are mysteries.
The theory favored by OED as "least improbable" is that it derives from the plural of Greek apheides- "unsparing, lavishly bestowed," in reference either to the "prodigious rate of production" of the insects or their voracity. The colloquial name was ant-cow (1847). Related: Aphidian (1855).

Woolly describes the look.

Definition:
Any plant louse of the family Aphididae, characterized by a waxy secretion that appears like a jumbled mass of fine, curly, white cottony or woolly threads, as Eriosoma lanigerum (woolly apple aphid or American blight) and Prociphilus tessellatus (woolly alder aphid).

Magic Status: 1 - Neophyte
Tier 1 - Paralogoos sheds their sticky floof everywhere.

Wisdom Status: 0 - Unaware

Owner

monty

Created

23 May 2020, 18:40:43 EDT

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PARA-271-Woolly-Aphid: Honeydew

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