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Discovery: Wild Inside: The aphid

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15/04/2024 GMT

Wild Inside: The aphid

BBC World Service - Discovery, Wild Inside: The aphid

Insights into the anatomy and physiology of the tiny sap-sucking aphid

Insights into the anatomy and physiology of the tiny sap-sucking aphid and how we could curtail its damaging impact.

The tiny sap-sucking aphid, at just a few millimetres long, is the scourge of many gardeners and crop-growers worldwide, spreading astonishingly rapidly and inflicting huge damage as it seeks to outwit many host plants’ natural defences. With insights and guidance from aphid expert George Seddon-Roberts at the John Innes Centre, Norwich, some delicate dissecting tools, and a state of the art microscope, Prof Ben Garrod and Dr Jess French delve inside this herbivorous insect to unravel the anatomy and physiology that has secured its extraordinary reproductive success, whilst offering new clues as to how we could curtail its damaging impact in the future.

Co-Presenters: Ben Garrod and Jess French
Executive producer: Adrian Washbourne
Producer: Ella Hubber
Editor: Martin Smith
Production co-ordinator: Jana Bennett-Holesworth

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