1796 W. Marshall Agric. Provincialisms in (ed. 2) II. 386 Smother fly; the bean aphis.
1944 R. Matheson xii. 244 The bean or dock aphis (Aphis rumicis) is probably our most common and abundant plant louse.
1965 J. D. Carthy vii. 96 The bean aphis..makes such movements from spindle trees to bean plants in the spring and in the reverse way in the autumn.