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harvest-bug
A minute mite or acarid troublesome during harvest; also called harvester, harvest-louse, -mite, -tick (see harvest n. 7). That common in England is a larval form of Tetranychus (Leptus) autumnalis; those in the U.S. are species of Tetranychus and Trombidium.
1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1852) I. 371 The flea and the gnat regale on his blood; the harvest-bug burrows in his flesh. 1771G. White Selborne xxxiv. 89 This animal (which we call an harvest-bug) is very minute..of a bright scarlet colour. 1861Hulme tr. Moquin-Tandon ii. vi. vi. 305 The wound of the Harvest bug occasions an acute burning and insupportable itching. |