Acknowledgements
We thank Chris Akin, Jacob Matta and Dean Kemp for technical assistance with setting up and carrying out assays. We would also like to acknowledge the U.S. Department of Agriculture, ARS Emerging Pests and Pathogens Research UnitĀ for providing Pandora neoaphidis strain #2588 for this work as well as Ben Parker from also providing infected aphid cadavers and the aphid line LSR1.Ri. This work was funded by NSF award 1754302 to KMO.