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Definition of Four-lined leaf bug

1. Noun. Yellow or orange leaf bug with four black stripes down the back; widespread in central and eastern North America.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Four-lined Leaf Bug

Literary usage of Four-lined leaf bug

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report of the Illinois State Entomologist Concerning Operations Under the by Illinois State Entomologist (1905)
"205). Its injury to gooseberry and currant and their relatives is especially severe, FIG. 203. The Four-lined Leaf-bug, ..."

2. The Insect Book: A Popular Account of the Bees, Wasps, Ants, Grasshoppers by Leland Ossian Howard (1905)
"This insect, known as the four-lined leaf-bug, is found all over the United States east of the Rocky Mountains, and is a common garden pest, sucking the sap ..."

3. Injurious Insects: How to Recognize and Control Them by Walter Collins O'Kane (1912)
"A winter spraying with lime-sulphur solution or other strong contact insecticide will kill the overwintering form. The Four-lined Leaf-bug ..."

4. Insect Pests of Farm, Garden and Orchard by Ezra Dwight Sanderson (1921)
"The Four-lined Leaf-bug * This is one of our most common leaf-bugs, which has a long list of food plants, but is particularly injurious to the young foliage ..."

5. Manual of Fruit Insects by Mark Vernon Slingerland, Cyrus Richard Crosby (1914)
"A gooseberry leaf injured by the four-lined leaf-bug. The newly hatched nymph is about sJ^ inch in length, of a bright vermillion red color with large black ..."

6. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"San José scale and four-lined leaf-bug arc sometimes injurious. When a plantation is infested hy the former it should be thoroughly treated with ..."

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