单词 | green bug |
释义 | > as lemmasgreen bug green bug n. now chiefly U.S. any of various green aphids (greenfly) and other green insects that are typically pests of plants; (in later use) esp. the widespread aphid Schizaphis graminum, which infests grasses and cereal crops. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Hemiptera > suborder Homoptera > family Aphis cantharidesa1398 blackfly1652 greenflya1680 green louse1682 green bug1704 collier1742 puceron1744 plant louse1763 aphis1771 leaf louse1774 smother-fly1785 tree-louse1797 ant cow1875 aphid1884 stilt-bug1895 1704 Nat. Hist. vi, in L. Wafer New Voy. & Descr. Isthmus Amer. (ed. 2) 216 The Green-bugg. His Head yellow, above mixt with green; it stinks much. 1741 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman May xv. 184 An Insect seldom, or never, misses attacking our green Cherries;..we call them Ladlemen, or the Green Fly, or Bug. 1879 J. H. Comstock Rep. Cotton Insects (U.S. Dept. Agric.) Appendix 2. 485 Then there is what is called the green bug. This insect does its mischief by sucking the limbs and branches of the plant. 1908 P. T. Dondlinger Bk. of Wheat x. 180 The Spring Green Aphis (Toxoptera graminum Rond).—This species, popularly called the ‘green bug’, was first described in 1852. 1971 R. E. Pfadt Fund. Appl. Entomol. (ed. 2) ix. 243 The greenbug, a species of aphid, is the most destructive pest of small grains in central and southwestern states. 2006 J. T. Costa Other Insect Societies xi. 290 The southern green stinkbug, Nezara viridula (L.). This serious crop pest [is] also known as the green vegetable bug, or simply the green bug. < as lemmas |
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