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    • Anja Pelzer
      June SKETCH Challenge (2024)

      By Anja Pelzer · Posted

      thank you @Ann Seeber and @Corrie Kinkel
    • Sue Thomas
      June 2024 - P52 Challenge

      By Sue Thomas · Posted

      Ants will farm aphids, as aphids feed on the sap of plants, they secrete a liquid called honeydew.  Aphids are sometimes called  plant lice, but they are not related.  Aphids are closely related within the suborder Sternorrhyncha. Lice belong to the suborder Troctomorpha, in the order that also contain book lice, barklice, and bark flies.  We look for aphid infestions in the crops.  I studied the  aphid when I was recording and documenting the life cycle of the  ladybird several   years ago.   As Ladybirds feed almost exclusivley on aphids.
    • Cassel
      Vector Workshop 2024

      By Cassel · Posted

      That's a lot of vectors! Definitely a good practice!
    • Donna Sillia
      Vector Workshop 2024

      By Donna Sillia · Posted

      Copying a chicken from CF
    • Corrie Kinkel
      June 2024 - P52 Challenge

      By Corrie Kinkel · Posted

      Ann in turn I didn't know this. I used the translation of the Dutch word "luis" or plural "luizen" and found louse or plural lice. It are those little greenish basterds that leave a sticky surface on the plants and ants love them! When you notice them in the garden than you are sure to see ants feasting on them. We use the word "luizen" also when there is a lice infestation in the hair of schoolkids. It seems that lice is a more generic word for a small and wingless parasitic insect on man, animals and plants , while aphids is only used for plants. At least according to my old and trusted Webster's New World Dictionary.
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