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cotton stainernounA North American bug which feeds on cotton bolls, causing reddish staining of the fibres.- Genus Dysdercus, family Pyrrhocoridae, suborder Heteroptera: several species, in particular D. suturellus.
Empty weavers' nests dangled from lifeless tree branches and flea beetles and cotton stainer bugs provided the only movement in that empty place....- The life cycles of the pale cotton stainer and the cotton harlequin bug have not been fully studied.
- When these antihormones are applied to immature cotton stainers and Mexican bean beetles, the insects grow into sterile adults.
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