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small bug having body and wings covered with a lacy network of raised lines

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Maternal care in Compseuta picta, an African lace bug (Heteroptera: Tingidae).
Azaleas are susceptible primarily to lace bugs, azalea petal blight, leaf gall, and cold winter injury.
Family Tingidae Laporte, 1807 (=Tingididae; Tingitidae): the lace bugs, pp.
Stephanitis lace bugs of the United States (Hemiptera: Tingidae).
The lace bugs feed on the underside of the leaves damaging the foliage and causing premature senescence (Horn et al.
Overwintering adult sycamore lace bugs were collected from sycamore trees in north Florida near Quincy.
Pre-treatment assessments of lace bugs populations and plant injury were conducted in Jun 2009 by harvesting 4 terminal shoots from each plant from the cardinal directions on each plant.
Total number of lace bugs at 2 mo after treatment were transformed [square root(x + 0.5)] before analysis with ANOVA followed by a Least Significant Difference (LSD; P < 0.05) for means separation (Analytical Software 2008).
Fenpropathrin was effective early in the trial but mortality of lace bugs declined following the 77-d post-treatment evaluation.
The avocado lace bug, Pseudacysta perseae (Heidemann) (Hemiptera: Tingidae), was first described in 1908 from specimens collected from avocados, Persea americana Miller (Lauraceae), in Florida.
Every 2 d, leaves and dead lace bugs were removed and replaced until S.
Stethoconus praefectus adults (females and males) that were 1 d old were confined in clear Plexiglass cages and provided with avocado lace bugs as described above.
Newly hatched amber-colored larvae crawled to the lace bugs and inserted their mouthparts usually under the more anterior abdominal segments (Figs.
A species new to science, Tingidoletes praelonga Gagne (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae), was recently discovered preying on the avocado lace bug, Pseudacysta perseae (Heidemann) (Heteroptera: Tingidae), in Florida, USA.
A naturally occurring infestation of lantana lace bugs invaded the replicated lantana planting in mid Jul 1996, and was first detected on plants of the cultivar 'Pink Frolic'.