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mirid

NOUN
  1. a variety of leaf bug

How To Use mirid In A Sentence

  • The thoracic pleura of Archizelmiridae, visible in some of the amber fossils, provide additional clues about relationships.
  • In the 25 days of observation, for example, 57 plants were found to harbor an average of 3.3 predatory mites, 16 plants contained nabids, and 30 plants contained mirids.
  • Dominant insect groups include Hemiptera, Coleoptera, Lepidoptera, Cantharidae, Coccinellidae, Miridae and Orthoptera that are distributed in the arid/dry steppe. Altai montane forest and forest steppe
  • In the subfamily Bryocorinae, the mirids are separated into two tribes, Monaloniini or Odoniellini.
  • Amiridis and other school officials, wary of potential opposition from political leaders who have already criticized colleges and universities for what they describe as inefficient and duplicative growth, stress that the Greenville medical program will not be a "new" medical school. TheState.com: Homepage
  • Our investigations in this case found that Marais and her company Zonda Resources Limited had imported and then bred large numbers of an insect known as a mirid bug (Macrolophus pygmaeus) and sold them for the biological control of the pest whitefly in commercial greenhouses," Mr Hayes says. NZ On Screen
  • Spraying against H. armigera used to destroy early mirid populations, limiting its impact on later crops. Ars Technica
  • The researchers found that populations of other cotton pests, particularly ones called mirids, have blossomed.
  • Nymphal mirids are very tiny, delicate creatures which may not resemble the adults very much.
  • But now that Bt cotton doesn't need to be sprayed, the mirid population has thrived and spilled over into other flowering crops, so spraying against mirid bugs has had to increase. Ars Technica
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