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nounany of various small plant-sucking insectstype of:
Definition that contains aphid
- louse any of several small insects especially aphids that feed by sucking the juices from plants
- ladybug small round bright-colored and spotted beetle that usually feeds on aphids and other insect pests
- ladybird small round bright-colored and spotted beetle that usually feeds on aphids and other insect pests
- aphis type genus of the Aphididae: injurious to fruit trees and vegetables
- greenfly greenish aphid; pest on garden and crop plants
- blackfly blackish aphid that infests e.g. beans and sugar beets
- hemiptera plant bugs; bedbugs; some true bugs; also includes suborders Heteroptera (true bugs) and Homoptera (e.g., aphids, plant lice and cicadas)
- homoptera plant lice (aphids); whiteflies; cicadas; leafhoppers; plant hoppers; scale insects and mealybugs; spittle insects
- lacewing any of two families of insects with gauzy wings (Chrysopidae and Hemerobiidae); larvae feed on insect pests such as aphids
- alder blight a disease of alders caused by the woolly alder aphid (a plant louse)