How to pronounce “aphid” in English

plant in its desert environment if it swallows microbes that can break down the heavy poisons within that plant andthese aphids can become resistant to parasitic wasps that would otherwise layeggs in their bodies and take over over uh and they can do that by by uh taking

We had some other names on the list. We found--this was the best thing we found during the trawling for stuff to put in the book. It's the list of names and there was Monkey Vomit. Therewas Hungry Aphid. There was one called, and there were little comments in the spreadsheet like, "Why is this a good name and why this isn't a good name?" It's really--what wasone of them? Hey, that's just a bit too aroma therapy, at least comments that worked. I don't know what they--I don't know what we're thinking at that time, but I'm really glad

All of that needs to be stood up.They have aphids, or they have a pest.

They'd heard about butterflies and gnats, water striders, leaf bugs, booklice and katydids sighted hundreds of miles out on the open ocean.About the aphids that Captain William Perry had encountered on ice flows during his polar expedition of 1828, and about those other aphidsthat in 1925 made the 800-mile journey cross the frigid, wind-swept Bering Sea in just 24 hours. Still, they were taken aback by the enormous

And then my friend Jessie sent me a Weta from New Zealand and then the 17-year cicadas emerged in Ohio. And I discovered the thrips and katydids,remembered the aphids on California roses, and the summer wasps drowning in water-filled jam jars.And then termites and hornets and earwigs and scorpions and ladybugs and praying mantises all dry in packets in garden supply stores.

And of course agriculture is same idea. It's working not just for each other and for other species and other species working for us. So, for example, ants also an indulgent agriculturein the sense that they farm aphids. Here's an ant on the left taking honeydew from an aphid and working for the aphid--in the sense of guarding it--and the aphid is working forit. But human agriculture is the same. The shepherd on the right is working for the sheep and the sheep are working for the shepherd and the dog is working for both of them and