planthopper

Definitions

Any of many insects, of superfamily Fulgoroidea, that bear a remarkable resemblance to leaves and are capable of prodigious leaps.

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Examples

“1997, Rosamond L. Naylor, Paul R. Ehrlich, Chapter 9: Natural Pest Control⟳ Services and Agriculture, Gretchen Daily (editor), Nature's Services: Societal Dependence On Natural Ecosystems, page 156, Cumulative losses from the brown planthopper have⟳ been estimated in the hundreds of millions of dollars (Denno and Perfect 1994) and accounted in 1990 for some 6 percent of the total value foregone from all biotic and abiotic factors that reduce⟳ rice production (Herdt 1991).”

“The sap-feeding planthoppers (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea) are ubiquitous in virtually all Hawaiian terrestrial ecosystems.”

“Planthoppers begin⟳ life as eggs deposited in fissures on the surface of their host⟳ plant⟳ or even beneath the bark.”

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