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Wilmarie Morales Soto
February 3, 2012
RISE

2.
• Also known as plant lice.
• Are small sap sucking insects, and
members of the superfamily Aphidoidea.
• Aphids can damage the plant by depriving
the tissues of vital nutrients.
• Some ants live with aphids in mutually
beneficial relations.
• Aphids reproduce asexually and sexually.

3.
• To develop the proper skills for microscope observation.
• To observe aphids through light microscopy.
• Aphids were collected in a Green House in Utuado.
• Using the dissecting microscope to see the insect.
• Place a drop of oil on the insect to keep it from moving.
• Magnify to 5.6 in order to see clearly.
• And photographs were taken.
• Aphids were very difficult to observed because they were
constantly moving.