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Definition of Lace bug
1. Noun. Small bug having body and wings covered with a lacy network of raised lines.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lace Bug
Literary usage of Lace bug
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Association Review by American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf (1907)
"I put my eye to the microscope, looking through it almost without thinking and
talking to my friend meanwhile, when suddenly beneath my eye lay the lace bug ..."
2. Key to the Families of North American Insects: An Introduction to the by Charles Thomas Brues, Axel Leonard Melander (1915)
"... 55 Harlequin cabbage-bug, 80 Hawk-moths, 51 Hawthorn lace-bug, 79 Head-louse,
19 Hellgrammite, 44 Hessian fly, 63 Hog-louse, 19 Honey-bee, 29 Hop-aphid, ..."
3. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1914)
"... burrowing in the trunk and larger branchée which are often killed. Treatment.—Dig
out borers or cut out infested branchée and burn. lace bug ..."
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