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'Aphides', which repeat the process, and their offspring after them, and so on again; you may go on for nine or ten, or even twenty or more successions; and there is no very good reason to say how soon it might terminate, or how long it might not go on if the proper conditions of warmth and nourishment were kept up.
Lectures and Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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'Aphides', which repeat the process, and their offspring after them, and so on again; you may go on for nine or ten, or even twenty or more successions; and there is no very good reason to say how soon it might terminate, or how long it might not go on if the proper conditions of warmth and nourishment were kept up.
The Perpetuation of Living Beings; hereditary transmission and variation Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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'Aphides', the Hyaena must produce, asexually, a brood of asexual Dogs, from which other sexless Dogs must proceed.
Lectures and Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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‘Aphides’, the Hyaena must produce, asexually, a brood of asexual Dogs, from which other sexless Dogs must proceed.
Essays 2007
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‘Aphides’, which repeat the process, and their offspring after them, and so on again; you may go on for nine or ten, or even twenty or more successions; and there is no very good reason to say how soon it might terminate, or how long it might not go on if the proper conditions of warmth and nourishment were kept up.
Essays 2007
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You all know what are called plant-lice, those nasty green or black flies called Aphides, which cover the leaves or branches of so many trees and flowers, and do most terrible mischief.
Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children W. Houghton
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Aphides or black-fly may be destroyed by tobacco dust and syringing well with an infusion of soft soap.
Gardening for the Million Alfred Pink
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Height, 3 ft. Aphides, or plant-lice, make their presence known by the plant assuming an unhealthy appearance, the leaves curling up, etc.
Gardening for the Million Alfred Pink
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Enemies: _Aphides_ or plant lice that suck the sap from the leaves in spring and early summer are the chief enemies of the tree.
Studies of Trees Jacob Joshua Levison
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Saprophytic bacteria can readily make their way down the dead hypha of an invading fungus, or into the punctures made by insects, and Aphides have been credited with the bacterial infection of carnations, though more recent researches by Woods go to show the correctness of his conclusion that Aphides alone are responsible for the carnation disease.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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