Discovery: 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' natural defences. Ben Garrod and Jess French use delicate dissecting tools and a state-of-the-art microscope to delve inside one of these tiny herbivorous insects and unravel its extraordinary success as a plant pest