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White fly

White fly \White fly\ Any one of numerous small injurious hemipterous insects of the genus Aleyrodes, allied to scale insects. They are usually covered with a white or gray powder.

Usage examples of "white fly".

Gripping the dark gray and white fly in his mouth, I pulled down on the dead man's lower lip, there was still black chocolate between his teeth.

He had climbed steadily, wearily, up out of the bowl in which the taller trees grew, and were dense, into the higher country, the bare landscape on which he would move like a white fly towards the main Ivalo road.

A barbershop had its door open and a curtain of red and white fly strips hung limp.