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Key Points:
- Lettuce Aphid is a contamination pest of lettuce, endive and radicchio
- The aphids colonise plant hearts and rosettes, making them unsaleable
- Aphids can also vector cucumber and lettuce mosaic viruses
- Lettuce Aphids prefer to feed on the young leaves found inside the wrapper leaves and hearts of iceberg lettuce varieties
- In open lettuce varieties, they are found deep within the leaf rosette
- Several similar aphid species are found in lettuce crops
- This factsheet will help you to identify Lettuce Aphid
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