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fleahopper
noun[ C or U ]
uk /ˈfliːˌhɒp.ər/ us /ˈfliːˌhɑː.pɚ/
a small, jumping insect that eats crops and garden plants:
These insecticidal treatments are made for fleahopper control.
Cotton fleahoppers are an early season pest of upland cotton.
The scheme gave farmers a way of controlling weevil and fleahopper.
The fleahopper appears just prior to and during the early fruiting period of the crop.
An outbreak of the cotton fleahopper in 1926 created widespread popular alarm in the South.
The key pests of cotton are the boll weevil and the cotton fleahopper.
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