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Aphids are garden bugs that suck sap from plants. If they suck the sap of an infected plant, they have the virus on them and then when they move to another plant and penetrate it to suck the sap, they can infect the second plant with the viruses on their faces and in their mouths.
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∙ 15y ago
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∙ 10y agoPiercing, sucking mouthparts and saliva allow an aphid to transmit viruses.
Specifically, aphids are soft-bodied insect pests that feed on a plant's phloem and xylem saps. They manage to piece a plant's foliage by way of razor-sharp mouthparts known as stylets, which leave an opening around which a sheath is left. Viruses may be transmitted by the saliva which an aphid releases and by the vectorability of the stylets and sheaths.
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What is the economic importance of aphids?
Aphids attack a number of crops and are vectors of many viruses attacking sweetpotato and other crops.
Do aphids spread from plant to plant?
Yes they do
How are viruses NOT spread to plants?
Plants have stronger cells walls. And viruses do spread to plants.
How are viruses spread from cell to cell?
New viruses are released after the lytic cycle. ~Gradpoint/Novanet
What viruses are spread by email?
Some computer viruses.
Where do plant louses or aphids come from or spread from?
Adult aphids of breeding age have wings and fly to a new food source: tender vegetation. Some ants also "tend" aphids, and will actually bring aphids to plants in order to harvest the honeydew produced by feeding aphids.
Why aphids are harmful?
because the can kill plants by sucking the sap and vector plant viruses and diseases
What is the most common viruses spread by email?
Macro viruses
Computer viruses are spread by touching a computers parallel port with unwashed hands?
No, computer viruses are spread via removable media, and the internet
Do grasshopper spread plant diseases?
Not normally as they are biting and chewing insects. Diseases are normally spread by sap sucking insects like Aphids
Does Animal Jam really spread viruses?
No
How are viruses spread to plants?
Plants have stronger cells walls. And viruses do spread to plants.
