Plant bugs; bedbugs; some true bugs; also includes suborders Heteroptera (true bugs) and Homoptera (e.g., aphids, plant lice and cicadas)
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The true bugs-thatis, seed and stink bugs-aremostly looking for plants and insects they can suck the juice out of.
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The diversity of habitat types was a key predictor for the incidence of twenty-five taxa, including ground beetles, true bugs and grasshoppers, amphibians, and reptiles.
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With about 5,000 species worldwide, the Heteroptera or true bugs are the most diverse taxon among the hemimetabolous insects in aquatic and semi-aquatic ecosystems.
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Rhodnius prolixus is a Hemiptera that feeds exclusively on vertebrate blood in all life stages.
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It was one of the Hemiptera, Spiniger luteicornis (Walk.
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In its vibrating coloured wing-cases it departed greatly from the normal character of the Hemiptera, and assumed that of the hornets.
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Marshall captured, near Salisbury, Mashonaland, three similar species of ants (Hymenoptera) with a bug (Hemiptera) and a Locustid (Orthoptera), the two latter mimicking the former.
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-Plant-lice, scale-insects, and leaf-hoppers furnish ants with honey, and in return are protected by the latter.-Contestbetween wasps and ants.-Waxy secretions of the homopterous hemiptera.