leafhopper

Examples

• All

• Farmers often struggle with leafhoppers because they can quickly damage their fields.

• In May, the researchers used their new test to sample hundreds of leafhoppers, squash bugs, and other insects.

  Academic text (1997)

• So a variety of alfalfa may be unappetizing to one leafhopper but tasty to another.

  Academic text (1995)

• The researchers' next step will be to start monitoring the leafhoppers' movements, feeding behavior, and geographic distribution.

  Academic text (1997)

• That information could give growers an edge in staving off a leafhopper-caused outbreak.

  Academic text (1997)

• Known to scientists as Homalodisca coagulata, the lively leafhopper is now set to attack other grape-growing regions in the Golden State as well.

  Academic text (2001)

• In addition to leafhoppers and squash bugs, they also looked at aphids, which tap into the plant's sweet, rich sap.

  Academic text (1997)

• Leafhoppers (Cicadellidae) were also well represented at 42 species, comprising 22% of the Hemiptera.

  Academic text (2010)

• The scientists' chief suspect is a little-known species of leafhopper, a winged insect that can easily infect plants with the microorganism as it probes for sap.

  Academic text (1997)

• The leafhopper sucks the sap from plants, harming crops in the process.

Synonyms

F

family Cicadellidae

vsleafhopper

• Specialized

9.6

A group of small jumping insects called leafhoppers that often harm crops

refers to a single small sap-sucking jumping insect that damages crops

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology