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plant louse

DEFINITIONS OF: plant louse

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n any of several small insects especially aphids that feed by sucking the juices from plants

Synonyms:
louse
Types:
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aphid
any of various small plant-sucking insects
adelgid
any of various insects that feed and form galls on conifers
Phylloxera vitifoleae, grape louse, grape phylloxera
destructive to various grape plants
jumping plant louse, psylla, psyllid
small active cicada-like insect with hind legs adapted for leaping; feeds on plant juices
oak blight
a black plant louse that lives on oaks and dogwoods
Aphis pomi, apple aphid, green apple aphid
bright green aphid; feeds on and causes curling of apple leaves
Aphis fabae, bean aphid, blackfly
blackish aphid that infests e.g. beans and sugar beets
greenfly
greenish aphid; pest on garden and crop plants
ant cow
excretes a honeylike substance eaten by ants
woolly aphid, woolly plant louse
secretes a waxy substance like a mass of fine curly white cotton or woolly threads
Adelges piceae, balsam woolly aphid
a variety of adelgid
Adelges abietis, spruce gall aphid
a variety of adelgid
Pineus pinifoliae, pine leaf aphid
a variety of adelgid
woolly adelgid
an insect that feeds on hemlocks; its egg sacs are small fuzzy white balls like artificial snow on a Christmas tree
Type of:
homopteran, homopterous insect
insects having membranous forewings and hind wings
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