What makes a red aphid red?
Story Date: 7/9/2012

Source: Hannah Burrack North Carolina Extension Entomologist, SOUTH EAST FARM PRESS, 7/6/12
 
Red green peach aphids have been suggested to be more resistant to some insecticides (as have red potato aphids), and red color forms also appear to predominate at hotter, late summer temperatures in North Carolina.
 
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