Tansy
Tansy - Tanacetum vulgare
Medium to tall, strongly aromatic plant to 1.5 metres, patch forming, almost hairless. Leaves pinnately lobed with lanceolate toothed segments, deep green, the uppermost unstalked. Flowerheads yellow, 7 to 12 mm, button like, rayless, in large, rather flat topped clusters.
Waste places, roadsides, rough grassland and embankments.
July to September.
Perennial.
Fairly frequent throughout Britain.
Fairly frequent in Leicestershire and Rutland. In the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire it was found in 86 of the 617 tetrads
 B4114 Near Frowlesworth Turn Sapcote SP 4898 9224 (taken 20.7.2006)...JPG)
Graham Calow
Sapcote
20 July 2006
Graham Calow
A5 Witherley
06 August 2015
Graham Calow
Central Barrier of A5 near High Cross
22 August 2016
Graham Calow
Sapcote
22 August 2014 B4114 Near Frowlesworth Turn Sapcote SP 4898 9224 (taken 30.7.2008),,.JPG)
Graham Calow
Sapcote
30 July 2008
Graham Calow
Verge of M69 Sapcote
27 July 2016
Graham Calow
Road alongside M69, Elmesthorpe
01 August 2016
Graham Calow
Verge of M69 Sapcote
27 July 2016
 B4114 Near Frowlesworth Turn Sapcote SP 4898 9224 (taken 20.7.2006)...JPG)
 B4114 Near Frowlesworth Turn Sapcote SP 4898 9224 (taken 30.7.2008),,.JPG)
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Macrosiphoniella tanacetaria
Macrosiphoniella tanacetaria apterae are large wax powdered green or pinkish-brown aphids which use Tansy as their main host plant, although a range of other host plants may also be used.
Pink Tansy Aphid
The Pink Tansy Aphid (Metopeurum fuscoviride) feeds mainly on Tansy. It is a medium-sized pink aphid with a large blackish spot on the abdomen. The antennal tubercles are very weakly developed, so that the front of head is very shallowly concave. The siphunculi are dark and thin and 1.3 to 2 times the length of the cauda. The cauda is dusky or dark, elongate triangular with a rather narrow apex, less than 1.7 times longer than its basal width. The body length of the apterae is 2.2-2.9 mm.