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cimex lectularius Bug of temperate regions that infests especially beds and feeds on human blood.
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Examples for "bedbug"
Examples for "bedbug"
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The place was full of roaches and occasionally I killed a bedbug.
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During decades of low bedbug infestation, scientists didn't study them much.
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Well, just some of his nutty stuff, I guess; he's crazier'n a bedbug.
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Grey crushed another bedbug, but his mind was not on it.
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First, you're not a real bedbug but a pirate bug, a close cousin.
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Even if making a new bed bug insecticide were lucrative, there are other challenges.
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This requires intimate knowledge of the bed bug's basic biology.
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Thus, 88% of the bed bug populations collected showed target-site mutations.
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Common bed bug under an electron microscope.
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The worst aspect about this is that we thought we had tackled the bed bug problem before.
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The bed bug, Cimex lectularius, has re-established itself as a ubiquitous human ectoparasite throughout much of the world during the past two decades.
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Don't let the Cimex Lectularius bite.
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Yes, they introduce diseased chinch bugs into the grain fields with the healthy ones.
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In summer they eat Colorado potato beetles, chinch-bugs, cotton boll-weevils, squash-beetles, grasshoppers and cutworms.
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There are a great many bugs injurious to vegetation, among them the little chinch bugs.
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The chinch-bug is responsible for the loss of five per cent., or one bushel out of every twenty.
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I ain't no pulpit chinch.
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Ned says he can guess what remedy the people apply to the healthy chinch bugs that are eating their grain.
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The chinch bugs might bother everyone else, but Martin seemed to be able to guard against them with fair success.
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Almost equally important is the damage wrought by the chinch-bug, which is also one of the greatest pests in wheat and oats.
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If the drought comes, or the flood, or the chinch-bug, or the brown-tailed moth, you may find yourself floundering in the mulligatawney.
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He called a chinch bug a Rhyparochromus, but he saddled his horse without a blanket and put bakin' powder in the sour-dough.
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The village boys were often shorn almost bald, because of lice and chinch bugs that lived inside the walls of the company houses.
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In fierce, uncontrollable and pitiless floods to drown the crops that had been spared by the chinch bugs, the grasshoppers and the Hot Winds.
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The Chinch bug begins its terrible ravages in the wheat fields.
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Chinch bugs destroy wheat to the value of twenty million dollars a year, and the cotton-boll weevil costs the Southern planters an equal amount.
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Yes, they introduce diseased chinch bugs into the grain fields with the healthy ones.
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In summer they eat Colorado potato beetles, chinch-bugs, cotton boll-weevils, squash-beetles, grasshoppers and cutworms.