Dock Aphid - Aphis rumicis
The wingless form has a length of 2 to 2.7 mm and is black to very dark greenish-brown. The winged form is also mainly black in colour.
It is similar to another Dock feeder Aphis fabae but that species does not cause the leaf edges of Dock to curl.
Feeds mainly on Dock causing the leaves to roll or crumple before later in the year moving up stems and into the inflorescences.
Summer and autumn.
Distribution and status in Britain are difficult to gauge as the species is poorly recorded.
Status in Leicestershire and Rutland not known.
David Nicholls
Desford
25 May 2015
Graham Calow
Sapcote, Land behind William Spencer Avenue
20 June 2022
Dock leaves rolled by aphids
Graham Calow
Witherley
18 June 2015
Graham Calow
Witherley
18 June 2015
leaf curl on Dock caused by aphids
Graham Calow
Sapcote, Land behind William Spencer Avenue
20 June 2022
on Dock
Graham Calow
Witherley
18 June 2015
leaf curl on Dock caused by aphids
David Nicholls
Desford
25 May 2015
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Species profile
- Species group:
- Bugs
- Kingdom:
- Animalia
- Order:
- Hemiptera
- Family:
- Aphididae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 15
- First record:
- 25/05/2015 (Nicholls, David)
- Last record:
- 15/06/2023 (Higgott, Mike)
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Witherley
18 June 2015
