Wild Inside: The aphid
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\u2019 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\nExecutive producer: Adrian Washbourne\nProducer: Ella Hubber\nEditor: Martin Smith\nProduction co-ordinator: Jana Bennett-Holesworth