单词 | new potato-bug |
释义 | > as lemmasnew potato-bug potato bug n. chiefly North American an insect, esp. a beetle, which infests potato plants; spec. (a) (more fully old-fashioned potato bug) a blister beetle of the genus Epicauta; (b) (more fully new potato-bug) the Colorado potato beetle, Leptinotarsa decemlineata. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Phytophaga or Chrysomeloidea > family Chrysomelidae > doryphora decemlineata (Colorado beetle) potato bug1799 potato beetle1861 Colorado beetle1866 1799 E. Drinker Jrnl. 2 Sept. (1889) 347 They call them [sc. a species of Cantharides] here..the Potato-Bug, being numerous on the potato tops. 1865 Pract. Entomologist 1 3/1 The new Potato Bug is not what naturalists call a Bug, but a true Beetle. 1877 4th Rep. Vermont State Board Agric. 1876–7 108 The Colorado Potato-Beetle or Potato-Bug. 1907 L. H. Bailey Cycl. Amer. Agric. II. 524/1 The old-fashioned potato bug or blister-beetle..is combated in the same way as the Colorado potato-beetle. It is now rarely seen. 1949 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 5 June 14/2 It was settled that I should receive 1 cent per hundred for picking potato bugs. 1979 R. Thomas Eighth Dwarf xxi. 210 The U.S. Constabulary..were swarming over the Opel plant..like so many potato bugs. 2004 Windsor Star (Ont.) (Nexis) 17 July f8 Dead nettle, horseradish and flax also keep potato bugs off your spuds. < as lemmas |
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