Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of numerous small insects of the family Cicadellidae that jump or hop readily and suck juices from plants, sometimes damaging crops.
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- noun Alternative spelling of
leaf-hopper .
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Examples
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Ommatius sp., robber fly, by Pete Moulton — with a leafhopper for breakfast, confluence of Rio Verde and Rio Salado north of Mesa, Arizona.
Photography Contest: Finalists, Threatened or Endangered - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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For the grape-leaf sprigging, I used some leaves from my garden (dating from before the leafhopper and skeletonizer incidents) Â I rolled out a thin slab of clay and then laid leaves on top, then rolled on top of the leaves to embed the veins into the clay.
Kater’s Art » Blog Archive » Crow and Grape Leaf Cookie Jar 2008
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Ommatius sp., robber fly, by Pete Moulton — with a leafhopper for breakfast, confluence of Rio Verde and Rio Salado north of Mesa, Arizona.
Photography Contest: Finalists, Threatened or Endangered - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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For the grape-leaf sprigging, I used some leaves from my garden (dating from before the leafhopper and skeletonizer incidents) Â I rolled out a thin slab of clay and then laid leaves on top, then rolled on top of the leaves to embed the veins into the clay.
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Spread by the tiny leafhopper bug, MSV plagues farmers across the southern part of the continent, where tens of millions rely on corn for more than half their daily calories.
Crops With Attitude 2009
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Hot dry weather is not favorable for either the phytoplasma or the leafhopper.
E-China-See-Ya~A Public Service Announcement « Fairegarden 2009
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The leafhopper acquires the phytoplasma while feeding by inserting its stylet a long, slender hollow feeding structure into the phloem of infected plants and withdrawing the phytoplasma with the plant sap.
E-China-See-Ya~A Public Service Announcement « Fairegarden 2009
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For the grape-leaf sprigging, I used some leaves from my garden dating from before the leafhopper and skeletonizer incidents I rolled out a thin slab of clay and then laid leaves on top, then rolled on top of the leaves to embed the veins into the clay.
Kater’s Art » Blog Archive » Crow and Grape Leaf Cookie Jar 2008
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On the left is an orchid and a leafhopper in the Peruvian cloud forest on Road from Cusco toward the Manu Biosphere Reserve.
my new blog look WENDEE HOLTCAMP 2008
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On the left is an orchid and a leafhopper in the Peruvian cloud forest on Road from Cusco toward the Manu Biosphere Reserve.
Archive 2008-02-01 WENDEE HOLTCAMP 2008
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