tarnished plant bug


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tar′nished plant′ bug`


n.
a sucking bug, Lyguslineolaris, that is a common pest of legumes and fruit trees.
[1885–90]
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Noun1.tarnished plant bug - widespread plant and fruit pesttarnished plant bug - widespread plant and fruit pest  
Lygus lineolaris
lygus bug - vector of viral plant diseases
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Another strawberry bug bad guy is the tarnished plant bug. I've not had serious problems but I understand they are the cause of nubby berries.
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The pest is the Capsid Bug that comes under a number of different names, including the Common Green Capsid and the Tarnished Plant Bug.
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In 2004, the three lines were more resistant to tarnished plant bug [Lygus lineolaris (Palisot de Beauvois)] than the susceptible frego-bract check and equal to the check cultivars.
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Species treated in this volume include desert locust, mountain pine beetle, tsetse flies, cactus moth, false codling moth, Anopheles arabiensis, rice stem borers, cotton pests, New World screwworm, red palm weevil, fire ant, tarnished plant bug, Aedes albopictus, oriental fruit fly, Mediterranean fruit fly, boll weevil, cotton bollworm, pink bollworm, codling moth, painted apple moth, and Formosan subterranean termite.
Vreysen, M. J. B., A. S. Robinson, and J. Hendrichs, J. (Eds.) 2007. Area-wide Control of Insect Pests: From Research to Field Implementation

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