| 单词 | mosquito blight |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmosquito blight mosquito blight n. now chiefly historical a disease affecting the tea plant, caused by infestation with a tropical plant bug of the genus Helopeltis (family Miridae), esp. H. theivora; the insect itself (also called tea-bug). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Hemiptera > miscellaneous types > member of genus Helopeltis mosquito blight1884 tea-bug1893 1884 Science 31 Oct. 426/2 The tea-bug or ‘mosquito-blight’, and the tea-mite or ‘red spider’, are the only two insects which are at present known to do such injury as to materially diminish the profits of the owners. 1899 D. Sharp in Cambr. Nat. Hist. VI. ii. 562 They are known as Mosquito blight. The egg is of comparatively large size, and is placed by the bug in the stems of the tea plant. 1903 G. Watt & H. H. Mann Pests & Blights Tea Plant (ed. 2) xiv. 265 When mosquito blight begins to affect the crop in May, the outlook is considered to be very serious. < as lemmas |
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