mealy bug — noun scalelike plant eating insect coated with a powdery waxy secretion; destructive especially of fruit trees • Syn: ↑mealybug • Hypernyms: ↑coccid insect • Hyponyms: ↑citrophilous mealybug, ↑citrophilus mealybug, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
mealy bug — mealybug meal y*bug , mealy bug mealy bug (m[=e]l [y^]*b[u^]g ), n. (Zo[ o]l.), Any of several homopteran scale insects (as, {Coccus adonidum}, and related species of the families {Pseudococcidae} and {Eriococcidae}), that cover themselves with a … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
List of A Bug's Life characters — This is a list of the fictional characters that appear in the Disney animated film A Bug s Life .AntsFlikFlik is a pavement ant with grand ideas on how to improve life, but he s constantly put down by other, more serious ants for his ideas and… … Wikipedia
Bed bug — Cimex lectularius Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia … Wikipedia
Indian meal moth — Taxobox name = Indianmeal moth image caption = Adult moths mating regnum = Animalia phylum = Arthropoda classis = Insecta ordo = Lepidoptera familia = Pyralidae subfamilia = Phycitinae genus = Plodia genus authority = Guenée, 1845 diversity link … Wikipedia
Tea bug — Tea Tea (t[=e]), n. [Chin. tsh[=a], Prov. Chin. te: cf. F. th[ e].] 1. The prepared leaves of a shrub, or small tree ({Thea Chinensis} or {Camellia Chinensis}). The shrub is a native of China, but has been introduced to some extent into some… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
mealy bug — noun a small sap sucking scale insect which is coated with a white powdery wax resembling meal and can be a serious pest. [Pseudococcus and other genera.] … English new terms dictionary
mealybug — meal•y•bug [[t]ˈmi liˌbʌg[/t]] n. ent any of several scalelike homopterous insects of the families Pseudococcidae and Eriococcidae that are covered with a powdery wax secretion and feed on plants • Etymology: 1815–25 … From formal English to slang
Coccus adonidum — mealybug meal y*bug , mealy bug mealy bug (m[=e]l [y^]*b[u^]g ), n. (Zo[ o]l.), Any of several homopteran scale insects (as, {Coccus adonidum}, and related species of the families {Pseudococcidae} and {Eriococcidae}), that cover themselves with a … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
mealybug — meal y*bug , mealy bug mealy bug (m[=e]l [y^]*b[u^]g ), n. (Zo[ o]l.), Any of several homopteran scale insects (as, {Coccus adonidum}, and related species of the families {Pseudococcidae} and {Eriococcidae}), that cover themselves with a white… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English