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Definition of Jumping plant louse

1. Noun. Small active cicada-like insect with hind legs adapted for leaping; feeds on plant juices.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Jumping Plant Louse

Literary usage of Jumping plant louse

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 (1885)
"(See Handsome Plant- louse.) Hickory. (See Hickory Plant-louse.) Jumping. (Set- Jumping Plant-louse.) Melon. (See Melon Plant-louse.) of the Willow. ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"... and where numerous does great damage at night to growing crops. JUMPING MOUSE. See JERBOAS. jumping plant louse, an insect belonging to the ..."

3. Class Book of Economic Entomology: With Special Reference to the Economic by William Lochhead (1919)
"... small reddish-brown, jumping plant-louse, J£ inch long; wings with three yellowish-brown bands. October-May or June. Eggs.—Light yellow, deposited in ..."

4. A Treatise on some of the insects injurious to vegetation by Thaddeus William Harris (1880)
"This Psylla, or jumping plant-louse, is one of the kinds whose young arc naked, or not covered with a coat of cotton. In some of its forms it is found on ..."

5. Manual of Fruit Insects by Mark Vernon Slingerland, Cyrus Richard Crosby (1914)
"... tripunctata Fitch This jumping plant-louse, a near relative of the pear psylla, occurs in the Atlantic states from Virginia to Maine. ..."

6. The Book of Pears and Plums by Edward Bartrum (1903)
"The Pear Sucker is a jumping plant-louse which early in the season sucks the juices of the tree about the axils of the leaves. They are covered with the ..."

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