Definition of Four-lined plant bug

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

Exact synonyms: Four-lined Leaf Bug, Poecilocapsus Lineatus
Generic synonyms: Capsid, Mirid, Mirid Bug
Group relationships: Genus Poecilocapsus, Poecilocapsus

Lexicographical Neighbors of Four-lined Plant Bug

four-four time
four-hitter
four-hundredth
four-in-hand
four-in-hands
four-lane
four-leaf
four-leaf clover
four-leaf clovers
four-leaved
four-legged
four-letter Anglo-Saxon word
four-letter word
four-letter words
four-lined leaf bug
four-lined plant bug (current term)
four-master
four-membered
four-minute man
four-momenta
four-momentum
four-o'clock
four-o'clock family
four-on-the-floor
four-part harmony
four-party
four-peat
four-penny nail
four-ply
four-point Calvinist

Literary usage of Four-lined plant bug

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

1. Economic Entomology for the Farmer and the Fruit Grower, and for Use as a by John Bernhard Smith (1906)
"... four-lined plant-bug, natural size and enlarged : also egg mass in currant, and, at e, a single egg, greatly enlarged. or woody plants are attacked ..."

2. Sessional Papers by Canada Parliament (1905)
"These remedies would also be effective against the Colorado Potato Beetle, the four-lined plant bug, Leaf- hoppers, and probably all other insect pests ..."

3. The Spraying of Plants: A Succinct Account of the History, Principles and by Ernest Gustavus Lodeman (1897)
"... will prove of value if properly applied. Whale-oil soap has also been recommended. DAHLIA. Four-lined Plant-bug. See under CURRANT. Green Lettuce-worm. ..."

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