Sentences with phrase «called leafhoppers»

MSV is transmitted amongst maize and other weed host plants by small insects called leafhoppers.

One newly recognized form of deception, used by plant - eating insects called leafhoppers, was thought to have a whole different purpose.

HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT Insects called leafhoppers (Alnetoidia alneti shown) produce microscopic, antireflective spheres that the bugs rub onto their eggs to camouflage them.

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Tiny one - millimetre wasps, also called fairy flies, are drawn to suck the sesame flower's nectar; then they lay their eggs into the eggs of the leafhoppers on nearby rice plants.