单词 | chinch-bug fly |
释义 | > as lemmaschinch-bug fly 2. chinch-bug, chink-bug (U.S.): ‘an insect or bug, resembling the bed-bug in its disgusting odour, which is very destructive to wheat and other grasses’ (Webster); also chinch-bug fly. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Hemiptera > unspecified types > chinch-bug chinch-bug1750 1750 G. Hughes Nat. Hist. Barbados 84 The Buonavista Chink. This is a small green flattish fly..and smells, when killed, like a bug. 1785 in Southern Lit. Messenger 28 (1852) 38/1 The devastation of the Chintz bug, which since harvest have infested the Indian corn. 1786 G. Washington Diary (1925) III. 97 Examined the..corn in several parts of this field and discovered more or less of the Chinch bug on every stalk. 1815 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. I. vi. 170 America suffers..in its wheat and maize from the attack of an insect..which, for what reason I know not, is called the chintz-bug-fly. 1873 J. H. Beadle Undeveloped West xiii. 225 Its [sc. wheat's] principal enemy is the chintz bug, so called here. 1886 Edinb. Rev. Oct. 356 Corn destroyed by the chinch-bug. 1887 Standard 19 Sept. 2/2 (Iowa) The damage done by chinch bugs. 1959 T. R. E. Southwood & D. Leston Land & Water Bugs Brit. Isles v. 82 The chinchbug, Blissus leucopterus, is an important cereal pest in North America which has spread rapidly over vast areas—this spread is paralleled in western Europe by the recent spread of our single British species. 1959 T. R. E. Southwood & D. Leston Land & Water Bugs Brit. Isles v. 82 Ischnodemus sabuleti (Fallén), European chinchbug. < as lemmas |
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