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small bright-colored insect that feeds on plant juices

: an insect of the hemipterous family Miridae including many that are destructive pests of plants — see tarnished plant bug

any of numerous, often brightly colored hemipterous insects of the family Miridae that feed on the juices of plants. Also called capsid, leaf bug.

[1855-60, Amer.]

plant bug,

any one of various hemipterous insects that attack the flowers, leaves, and fruit of many plants.