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leaf-hopper

noun

  1. any homopterous insect of the family Cicadellidae, including various pests of crops
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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The grape leaf-hopper and the grape-vine flea-beetle are possibly the worst of the insects infesting the grapes about these lakes.

Does not ripen its wood well and is slightly tender and very susceptible to leaf-hopper here.

Erythroneura tricincta, or the Three-banded Leaf-hopper, is like the preceding species, but the bands are narrower.

The most outstanding species in New Zealand is the apple leaf-hopper (Typhlocyba australis).

Most of us are only too well acquainted with the rose-leaf hopper that swarms on rose bushes and kills the leaves.

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