Lexic.us

Definition of Plant hopper

1. Noun. Related to the leafhoppers and spittlebugs but rarely damages cultivated plants.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Plant Hopper

Literary usage of Plant hopper

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

1. Return to Resistance: Breeding Crops to Reduce Pesticide Dependence by Raoul A. Robinson (1996)
"The brown plant hopper has proved even worse because, when the vertical resistance to it failed, the miracle rices were so susceptible that there were ..."

2. Pest Management and Food Production: Looking to the Future by Montague Yudelman, Annu Ratta, David F. Nygaard (1998)
"Insecticide application against the brown plant hopper not only caused its dramatic resurgence by eliminating more exposed and slowly reproducing natural ..."

3. Weather and Rice: Proceedings of the International Workshop on the Impact of by International Rice Research Institute (1987)
"A study of upper winds analysis for the migratory path of the white-back plant hopper and the brown plant hopper in China [in Chinese, with English summary] ..."

4. Illustrated Guide to Integrated Pest Management in Rice in Tropical Asia by W. H. Reissig, International Rice Research Institute (1985)
"Damage The smaller brown plant- hopper does not usually damage rice by direct feeding; however, it is an important transmitter of two virus diseases: ..."

5. Planet Geographyby Stephen Codrington by Stephen Codrington (2005)
"... spraying in Malaysia to reduce numbers of the stern borer resulted in an explosive increase in the number of another pest, the brown plant-hopper. ..."

6. Summary Proceedings of a Workshop on Cereal Yield Variability by P. B. R. Hazell (1986)
"Other problems loom as possible threats, such as the lack of resistance in IR-36 rice to brown plant hopper biotype 2, and in some CIMMYT varieties to leaf ..."

7. Japan in the Beginning of the 20th Century by Japan Nōshōmushō, Haruki Yamawaki (1904)
"... a Notification On this point in 1885 and this was made more perfect in its working ill 1896. The appearance of the rice-plant hopper in time very next ..."

8. Return to Resistance: Breeding Crops to Reduce Pesticide Dependence by Raoul A. Robinson (1996)
"The brown plant hopper has proved even worse because, when the vertical resistance to it failed, the miracle rices were so susceptible that there were ..."

9. Pest Management and Food Production: Looking to the Future by Montague Yudelman, Annu Ratta, David F. Nygaard (1998)
"Insecticide application against the brown plant hopper not only caused its dramatic resurgence by eliminating more exposed and slowly reproducing natural ..."

10. Weather and Rice: Proceedings of the International Workshop on the Impact of by International Rice Research Institute (1987)
"A study of upper winds analysis for the migratory path of the white-back plant hopper and the brown plant hopper in China [in Chinese, with English summary] ..."

11. Illustrated Guide to Integrated Pest Management in Rice in Tropical Asia by W. H. Reissig, International Rice Research Institute (1985)
"Damage The smaller brown plant- hopper does not usually damage rice by direct feeding; however, it is an important transmitter of two virus diseases: ..."

12. Planet Geographyby Stephen Codrington by Stephen Codrington (2005)
"... spraying in Malaysia to reduce numbers of the stern borer resulted in an explosive increase in the number of another pest, the brown plant-hopper. ..."

13. Summary Proceedings of a Workshop on Cereal Yield Variability by P. B. R. Hazell (1986)
"Other problems loom as possible threats, such as the lack of resistance in IR-36 rice to brown plant hopper biotype 2, and in some CIMMYT varieties to leaf ..."

14. Japan in the Beginning of the 20th Century by Japan Nōshōmushō, Haruki Yamawaki (1904)
"... a Notification On this point in 1885 and this was made more perfect in its working ill 1896. The appearance of the rice-plant hopper in time very next ..."

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