plant louse
Noun
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Any of several small insects especially aphids that feed by sucking the juices from plants (synset 102254427)
is a type of: homopteran, homopterous insect - insects having membranous forewings and hind wingssubtypes:
- aphid - any of various small plant-sucking insects
- adelgid - any of various insects that feed and form galls on conifers
- grape louse, grape phylloxera, phylloxera vitifoleae - 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
same as: louse
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