WELCOME TO A WEBSITE FOR EVERYONE WHO NEEDS TO KNOW
ABOUT APHIDS:-
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VICTOR FRANK
EASTOP 1924-2012 It is with extreme
sadness that I have to report that Vic Eastop died peacefully early on the
morning of Friday 30th March 2012. He had just returned from
hospital after an operation to fit a plate to a broken hip-bone, and seemed
to be recovering well, so his death came as a shock to us all. I have known and
worked with Vic for over 40 years, and I can honestly say that he was the
nicest man that I have ever known. His friendly and unassuming disposition
and lively sense of humour made everyone he met warm to him, and I am certain
that many besides myself will feel a great sense of loss. Needless to say,
this website will go on without him, and be dedicated to his memory.
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APHIDS ON THE WORLD’S PLANTS
The plant-sucking bugs known as aphids include many important pests of
agriculture, horticulture and forestry, and also play a major part in natural
food-chains. Over the years we (Roger
Blackman and Victor Eastop) have published a series of books aiming to make it
easier to identify the world’s aphids and find out what is known about them.
Now we want to make as much
of this information as possible freely available on the internet. Obviously it
will take some time to prepare it all so that it can be accessed easily and
used in digital format. But we are now ready to take a major step forward, with
a comprehensively revised and fully updated digital version of our 1994
publication, Aphids on the World’s Trees.
So, please click here, and take a look.
COMPLETELY
REVISED AND UPDATED
A major advantage of having
this information on the internet is that it will be possible to update it
frequently, to correct the inevitable errors, and to take account of any
suggestions for improvement received from users of the site. We therefore
welcome all e-mail comments on the content of the site, and would also
appreciate receiving pdfs of any newly published papers in the field of aphid
taxonomy and biosystematics. Please send these to:-
roger.blackman@aphidsonworldsplants.info
The last
update of this site was on 10th April 2012.
Victor Eastop and Roger
Blackman are scientific associates of the Natural History
Museum, London.
NEW! A year in the life of a birch aphid 
Don’t forget that fully updated taxonomic information
about aphids is now available on the web.
Visit http://aphid.speciesfile.org 