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On looking up I noticed that hundreds of large black ants were going up and down the tree, and then I saw the aphides….

From The Industries of Animals by Houssay, Frédéric

Green aphides or lice often follow lack of strength in the cabbage.

From Farm Gardening with Hints on Cheap Manuring Quick Cash Crops and How to Grow Them by Anonymous

Some aphides live only on one species of plant, others on two or more plants.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" by Various

Many aphides, etc., puncture the leaves, suck out the sap, and produce deformations and arrest of leaf-surface, as well as actual loss of substance, and when numerous such insects induce all the evils of defoliation.

From Disease in Plants by Ward, H. Marshall

Though it destroys grapes and other soft fruits, it also so completely destroys aphides that it is appropriately called the Blight-Bird.

From An Australian Bird Book A Pocket Book for Field Use by Leach, John Albert