leafhopper in English

noun
1
a small plant bug that is typically brightly colored and leaps when disturbed. It can be a serious crop pest in warm regions.
The adults of most species feed on nectar and honeydew produced by aphids and other sucking insects like leafhoppers , whiteflies and mealybugs.

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1. Blackfaced LEAFHOPPER: Graminella nigrifrons, Cicadellidae

2. The Mechanical Gears of the Issus Leafhopper

3. Did the gear mechanism of the Issus leafhopper come about by evolution?

4. History, Bionomies, and control of the leafhopper were discussed by Cook (16, 17)

5. The natural enemies of SGL, especially its egg parasitoids, mymaridae, were plentiful and have an important potentiality for sustainable controlling the leafhopper.

6. Bacilliform virus (RTBV), which resembles badnaviruses in having a dsDNA and Bacilliform shape,but differs in the genome organi-zation [an extra open reading frame (ORF)] and vector transmis-sion (by leafhopper, as opposed to mealybugs in the case of badnaviruses)