Are Autumn Foliage Colors Red Signals to Aphids?

…bright colours of leaves in the autumn are a warning signal to insects that lay their eggs on the trees in that season." -Marco Archetti and Sam P. Brown (2003) [1] "The assumed attractiveness of bright colours to insects would appear to involve the supposition that the colour vision of insects is approximately the same as our own.Surely this is a good deal to take for granted."-Lord Rayleigh ( 1874) [2] "Autumn colouring is of great interest in a comparative study of coloration.There is no reason to suppose that the colouring is of the slightest use to the trees, and yet it often displays to an extraordinary degree that beauty and perfectness which we are accustomed to regard as the result of the action of Natural Selection."-Marion I. Newbigin