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Small leaping insect that sucks the juices of plants
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leafhopper
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Leafhopper is a common name applied to any species from the family Cicadellidae . These minute insects , colloquially known as hoppers , are plant feeders that suck plant sap from grass, shrubs, or trees. Their hind legs are modified for jumping, and are ...
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n. small leaping insect that sucks the juices of plants
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n. (alternative spelling of leaf-hopper English)
Usage examples of leafhopper.
It can be used as a contact and stomach poison as well as a repellent against flies, roaches, aphids, fleas, thrips, leafhoppers, Whiteflies and some kinds of beetles.
Swallows have been observed eating a thousand leafhoppers in a day, and a group of blue wrens can feed hundreds of bugs to their young in one afternoon.
They strike against leafhoppers, scale, Whiteflies, larvae of beetles, and caterpillars.
He wanted to warn the others, but he was afraid to get leafhoppers in his mouth.
Occasional thoughts of Jamie and Lionel Brown drifted through the back of my mind, but I shooed them away like the leafhoppers and midges who landed on my page, drifting in through the window.
At eye level with dandelions and camomile buds, I followed the business of ants and leafhoppers, ladybugs and wood lice, and I stared so long at a stem of fennel that I swear I saw it grow.
The weeding wasn't complete, the suckering was just begun, and there was a mild infestation of grape leafhoppers.