predator bug

Any of several species of African assassin bugs, especially Platymeris rhadamanthus.


skater

Any of numerous hemipterous insects in the family Gerridae, which run rapidly over the surface of the water, as if skating.


chinch

From Spanish chinche (“bedbug”) or Portuguese chinche, from Latin cimex (“bedbug”). Doublet of cimex.

Cimex lectularius
Cimex lectularius#Translingual


chinch

en-verb

chinch (third-person singular simple present chinches, present participle chinching, simple past and past participle chinched)

chinches (present singular third-person)
chinching (participle present)
chinched (participle past)
chinched (past)


bedbug

Any similar insect of family Cimicidae, that feeds on the blood of humans and certain other warm-blooded animals.


water scorpion

Any long-legged aquatic insect of the family Nepidae, commonly the species Nepa cinerea.


firebug

Pyrrhocoris apterus, a common red and black insect, that is the type species of the family Pyrrhocoridae.


striped shield bug

en-noun

striped shield bug (plural striped shield bugs)

A shield bug with black and red stripes, Graphosoma lineatum.


shield bug

Any of various shield-shaped true bugs of the superfamily Pentatomoidea.

chinche, insecto en forma de escudo con cuatro patas


true bug

Fig. 16 is the striped or cucumber-bug, as it is improperly called, but which is in reality a beetle, while fig. 17, the squash-bug, is a true bug, being without jaws or mouth, except a long slender tube, fitted for piercing and sucking the sap of plants.

1858, “Insects Injurious to Vegetation”, in The (old) Farmer's Almanack, page 37:

Any of various insects of the order Hemiptera and in particular of the suborder Heteroptera, that are wingless or have two pairs of wings, and have mouthparts adapted for piercing and sucking.

wants

any of various insects of the order Hemiptera and in particular of the suborder Heteroptera


pond-skater

Any of various predatory insects of the family Gerridae that skim about on the surface of ponds, slow streams, marshes, and other quiet waters.


water boatman

Any of the various aquatic insects of the family Corixidae that have paddle-shaped hind legs used for swimming.


milkweed bug

(US) an insect, of the family Lygaeidae, that mostly feeds on the seeds and tissue of the milkweed plant (Asclepias).


corsair

Borrowed from French corsaire, from Medieval Latin cursārius (“pirate”), from Latin cursus (“course, a running; plunder, hostile inroad”). Doublet of courser and hussar.

der

A nocturnal assassin bug of the genus Rasahus, found in the southern USA.


triatomine

Any of many bloodsucking insects (kissing bugs etc) of the subfamily Triatominae


reduviid

Borrowed from translingual Reduviidae, from Reduvius (genus name) + -idae (taxonomic suffix), from Latin reduvia (“a remainder, remnant, fragment”), describing the habit of the nymph of Reduvius personatus camouflaging itself with small pieces of debris.

der

(entomology) any member of the Reduviidae family of insects, which comprises predatory and blood-sucking bugs, including the vectors of Chagas disease


water strider

Any of a number of predatory insects in the family Gerridae, which rely on surface tension to walk on top of water.

zapatari

any of a number of predatory insects in the family Gerridae


stinkbug

(entomology) Any of various insects of the order Hemiptera (the "true bugs"), in the suborder Heteroptera, principally in the superfamily Pentatomoidea or Coreoidea.


shield beetle

Any of the American shield bugs, in the superfamily Pentatomoidea.

(British) Any of several shield-shaped leaf beetles that typically inhabit a specific species of tree; especially members of the genus Cassida.

(obsolete) Cossyphidae spp., now in the family Tenebrionidae of darkling beetles.


redbug

Atticus paused, watching me locate an elusive redbug on my leg.
"Gentle breeding," he continued, when I had found and scratched it,....

1960 July 11, Harper Lee, chapter 13, in To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa., New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC:

Any member of the family Pyrrhocoridae of true bugs.


pleid

(entomology) Any member of the family Pleidae, the pygmy backswimmers


assassin bug

Any true bug from the subfamily Reduviinae of the family Reduviidae, all of which eat other insects. They can inflict a very painful bite, but don't cause disease.

Any true bug from any of the subfamilies of the Reduviidae, including those in the subfamily Triatominae, which suck blood and may transmit Chagas' disease to humans.


kissing bug

From kissing + bug: they often feed on the lips of human victims.

Any of a number of haematophagous bugs belonging to the subfamily Triatominae that feed on the blood of vertebrates, including humans, and which are known for spreading Chagas' disease.

barbeiro

any haematophagous bugs in the subfamily Triatominae


cimex

From the genus name Cimex, from Latin cīmex (“bug”). Doublet of chinch.

Some of these cimices are extremely pretty, but if handled emit their disagreeable perfume. I have met with about a dozen species of these bugs.

1855, Henry G Dalton, The history of British Guiana:

There was a poor fellow during my remainder there that, for a new trick he had invented of killing cimices and scorpions, had his mountebank banner hung up...

1967, Merritt E Lawlis, Elizabethan prose fiction:

Any member of the genus Cimex, especially the bedbug.


water bug

Any of various other true bugs that live around water.


backswimmer

Any of various aquatic insects, of the family Notonectidae, that swim on their backs.


mirid

Mirids continued to be underappreciated as predators even after several species had been used successfully in classical biological control in the 1920s and 1930s.

2000, A. G. Wheeler, Jr., “Chapter 28: Predacious Plant Bugs (Miridae)”, in Carl W. Schaefer, Antonio Ricardo Panizzi, editors, Heteroptera of Economic Importance, page 657:

Interestingly, the reproductive consequences of hornworm and mirid attack are very different for the plant. While the plant metabolically responds very similarly to hornworm and mirid attack and gains resistance to hornworms, attack by mirids (in contrast to attack by hornworms) does not reduce the reproductive success of the plant, although the damage from these piercing-sucking insects can be substantial.

2006, Marcel Dicke, Willem Takken, Chemical Ecology: From Gene to Ecosystem, page 29:

Green mirids may be present at any crop stage from seedlings to podding. Mirid populations are typically low during the vegetative phase, but can increase rapidly after budding as a result of in-crop breeding.

2007, H. Brier, “7: Pulses—Summer (including Peanuts)”, in P. T. Bailey, editor, Pests of Field Crops and Pastures: Identification and Control, page 186:

(entomology) Any insect of the family Miridae, a plant bug.


heteropteran

(biology) Any of very many insects of the suborder Heteroptera


tingid

(entomology) Of or pertaining to the family Tingidae, the lace bugs.


tingid

(entomology) Any of the family Tingidae, the lace bugs.


shore bug

An insect of any of numerous small predatory, often burrowing, species of the family Saldidae, found near bodies of water.


acanthosomatid

(entomology) Any member of the Acanthosomatidae.


alydid

(entomology) Any member of the family Alydidae, the broad-headed bugs.


anthocorid

(entomology) Any member of the insect family Anthocoridae, the minute pirate bugs, pirate bugs, or flower bugs.


aradid

(entomology) Any member of the family Aradidae, the flat bugs.


belostomatid

(zoology) Any insect of the family Belostomatidae, such as a toe biter.


berytid

(zoology) Any of the family Berytidae of stilt bugs or thread bugs.


cimicid

(entomology) Any member of the family Cimicidae, such as bedbugs.


coreid

(zoology) Any bug in the family Coreidae.


corimelaenid

(zoology) Any stink bug in the family Corimelaenidae, now considered the thyreocorid subfamily Corimelaeninae.


coriscid

(zoology) Any bug in the family Coriscidae, a synonym for the Alydidae.


corixid

(entomology) Any member of the family Corixidae, the water boatmen.


cydnid

(entomology) Any member of the family Cydnidae of burrowing bugs.


enicocephalid

(entomology) Any member of the family Enicocephalidae, the unique-headed bugs or gnat bugs.


gelastocorid

(entomology) Any member of the family Gelastocoridae, the toad bugs


gerrid

However some gerrids, nepids and veliids are attacked by allantonematid nematodes and Burton (1963) found Wuchereria bancrofti (Cobb) in a bedbug, although this insect was not considered an intermediate host.

1975, George O. Poinar, Entomogenous Nematodes: A Manual and Host List of Insect-nematode Associations:

(entomology) Any member of the family Gerridae, the water striders.


hebrid

(entomology) Any member of the family Hebridae, the velvet water bugs.


hydrometrid

(entomology) Any member of the family Hydrometridae, the water measurers or marsh treaders


hyocephalid

(zoology) Any insect in the family Hyocephalidae.


largid

(zoology) Any plant bug in the family Largidae.


lygaeid

(zoology) Any plant bug in the family Lygaeidae.


microphysid

(zoology) Any bug in the family Microphysidae.


nabid

(entomology) Any member of the family Nabidae, the damsel bugs


naucorid

(entomology) Any member of the family Naucoridae, the creeping water bugs


nepid

(zoology) Any member of the family Nepidae, the water scorpions.


notonectid

(entomology) Any member of the family Notonectidae, the backswimmers.


ochterid

(zoology) Any insect in the family Ochteridae.


pentatomid

(zoology) Any shield bug in the family Pentatomidae


phymatid

(zoology) Any ambush bug in the subfamily Phymatinae of the family Reduviidae, formerly considered to be an independent family, Phymatidae.


piesmatid

(entomology) Any member of the family Piesmatidae, the ash-gray leaf bugs.


plataspid

(zoology) Any true bug in the family Plataspidae, which is sometimes known as the Plataspididae.


polyctenid

(zoology) Any bug in the family Polyctenidae.


pyrrhocorid

(entomology) Any member of the family Pyrrhocoridae.


rhopalid

(zoology) Any bug in the family Rhopalidae.


rhyparochromid

(zoology) Any seed bug in the family Rhyparochromidae.


saldid

(entomology) Any member of the family Saldidae, the shore bugs.


veliid

(entomology) Any member of the family Veliidae of riffle bugs.


scutellerid

(zoology) Any member of the family Scutelleridae of shield-backed bugs.


termitaphidid

(entomology) Any member of the family Termitaphididae, the termite bugs.


tessaratomid

(zoology) Any bug in the family Tessaratomidae.


thyreocorid

(zoology) Any shield bug in the family Thyreocoridae.


triatoma

(zoology) Any member of the genus Triatoma of assassin bugs.


cotton stainer

Any of various insects of the family Pyrrhocoridae whose feeding activities leave an indelible brownish-yellow stain on cotton crops.


negro bug

(now possibly offensive) Any shield bug of the family Thyreocoridae.


wheel bug

(US) Any assassin bug of the genus Arilus, large true bugs with wheel-shaped pronotal armor.


masked hunter

An insect of species Reduvius personatus, of the assassin bug family whose nymph camouflages itself with dust.


toe biter

Referring to the powerful bite containing proteolytic enzymes.

(US) A large aquatic true bug with pincer-like front legs, Lethocerus americanus


electric light bug

en-noun

electric light bug (plural electric light bugs)

A North American aquatic true bug, Lethocerus americanus, which attracts attention when attracted to lights due to its large size.


leaf-footed bug

leaf-footed bug (plural leaf-footed bugs)

Any insect in the family Coreidae, many of which have flat, leaf-shaped structures on their hind legs.


squash bug

An insect in any of several species of true bugs in the family Coreidae which feed on plants in the family Cucurbitaceae

Any insect in the family Coreidae, whether they feed on plants in the family Cucurbitaceae or not.


lace bug

Any insect in the family Tingidae, named for the lace-like appearance of the wings and pronotum.


ambush bug

After their habit of lying in wait, camouflaged, for their prey.

Any insect in the subfamily Phymatinae of the family Reduviidae.


thread-legged bug

thread-legged bug (plural thread-legged bugs)

Any insect in the subfamily Emesinae of the family Reduviidae, which are predatory true bugs with long, thin, threadlike legs.


bee assassin

Any insect in the genus Apiomerus, known for frequenting flowers to feed on the insects there.


feather-legged bug

feather-leged bug (plural feather-legged bugs)

feather-leged bug (canonical)
feather-legged bugs (plural)

Any insect in the subfamily Holoptilinae of the family Reduviidae, many of which have legs covered with feathery hairs.


brown marmorated stink bug

brown marmorated stink bug (plural brown marmorated stink bugs)

An insect native to east Asia, Halyomorpha halys, which was accidentally introduced to the eastern United States and has become an invasive and serious agricultural and nuisance pest there.


pirate bug

Any insect in the family Anthocoridae, known as effective predators of other insects, and used in biological control.


minute pirate bug

minute pirate bug (plural minute pirate bugs)


riffle bug

Any insect in the family Veliidae of aquatic true bugs related to the water striders.


velvet water bug

velvet water bug (plural velvet water bugs)

Any insect in the family Hebridae, which lives in vegetation in and around water


water measurer

Any insect in the family Hydrometridae, aquatic insects related to the water strider


giant water bug

giant water bug (plural giant water bugs)

Any insect in the family Belostomatidae of large, predatory true bugs.


toad bug

Any insect in the family Gelastocoridae, which are predatory riparian true bugs


creeping water bug

creeping water bug (plural creeping water bugs)

Any insect in the family Naucoridae, aquatic predatory true bugs that look like toe biters


termite bug

Any insect in the family Termitaphididae, true bugs found in termite nests in the tropics


flat bug

Any insect in the family Aradidae, true bugs that are mostly flat-bodied and live under tree-bark.


parent bug

The shield bug Elasmucha grisea, known for showing a high level of parental care.


shield-backed bug

shield-backed bug (plural shield-backed bugs)

Any insect in the family Scutelleridae, true bugs which have the thorax extended to cover the wings and abdomen, and are often brightly-colored with a metallic gloss.


broad-headed bug

broad-headed bug (plural broad-headed bugs)


plant bug

Most of these insects are known for feeding on plant sap.


wekiu bug

From Hawaiian Puʻu Wēkiu, the highest peak on Mauna Kea, where the first specimen was found.

An insect in either of two species in the family Lygaeidae, Nysius wekiucola (found on Mauna Kea on the island of Hawaii) and Nysius wekiucola (found on the neighboring Mauna Loa), notable for living above the snow line at temperatures constantly below freezing, and for feeding on frozen insects (all other species in the family feed on plants).


conenose

In these areas, wherever domestic conenoses are encountered, they should be exterminated.

1962, Tropical Health: A Report on a Study of Needs and Resources:


tarnished plant bug

tarnished plant bug (plural tarnished plant bugs)

A plant bug, Lygus lineolaris, known as a very serious pest on a wide variety of crops throughout North America.


gnat bug

Any insect in the family Enicocephalidae.


unique-headed bug

unique-headed bug (plural unique-headed bugs)


pygmy backswimmer

pygmy backswimmer (plural pygmy backswimmers)


ash-gray leaf bug

ash-gray leaf bug (plural ash-gray leaf bugs)


southern green stink bug

southern green stink bug (plural southern green stink bugs)

(US) A stink bug, Nezara viridula, that has spread worldwide in tropical and subtropical regions and is a significant pest on many crops.


green vegetable bug

green vegetable bug (plural green vegetable bugs)

(Australia, New Zealand) A stink bug, Nezara viridula, that has spread worldwide in tropical and subtropical regions and is a significant pest on many crops.


harlequin bug

A bright red and black stink bug, Murgantia histrionica, a common pest of cabbages and related crops in North America

(Australia) A red and black true bug in the family Pyrrhocoridae, Dindymus versicolor, known as a common garden pest in parts of Australia


harlequin cabbage bug

harlequin cabbage bug (plural harlequin cabbage bugs)

A bright red and black stinkbug, Murgantia histrionica, a common pest of cabbages and related crops in North America.


mule killer

(US, Southern US) Any of various unrelated arthropods, including whip scorpions, velvet ants, mantises, wheel bugs, and walking stick insects, that have been erroneously believed to kill livestock by stinging them or being swallowed.


welwitschia bug

welwitschia bug (plural welwitschia bugs)

Probergrothius angolensis, a yellow true bug with black markings, found in the Namib desert and known for its association with the welwitschia plant.


bagrada bug

Bagrada hilaris, a shield bug that is harmful to plants.


garden fleahopper

garden fleahopper (plural garden fleahoppers)


cotton fleahopper

cotton fleahopper (plural cotton fleahoppers)


fleahopper

Any of several very small insects in the family Miridae that are garden or agricultural pests.


Hualapai tiger

(Arizona) An assassin beetle, kissing bug, cone-nose bug, Texas bed bug (family Reduviidae)


urostylid

Any true bug of the family Urostylididae


cimicomorphan

Any true bug of the infraorder Cimicomorpha


leptopodomorphan

Any true bug of the infraorder Leptopodomorpha


nepomorphan

Any true bug of the infraorder Nepomorpha


ectrichodiine

Any assassin bug of the subfamily Ectrichodiinae


scorpion bug

Any large predatory water bug in the genus Nepa or similar bugs in family Nepidae.


triatomid

Any assassin bug of the subfamily Triatominae


parastrachiid

On the other hand, a few lineages, namely the burrower bugs and their close relatives the parastrachiids, are characterized by nesting and provisioning.

2006, James T. Costa, The Other Insect Societies, page 325:

Any true bug of the family Parastrachiidae


gundy

Control measures were also carried out against the 'Kutra' (Amsacta sp.), termites, ands, the paddy 'Gundy Bugs' (Leptocorisa varicornis), the 'Singhara Beetle' (Galerucella singhara), the 'Painted Bug' (Bagrada crusiferarum Kirk.), 'Red pumpkin beetle' (Aulacophora spp.) and the 'Cutworms' (Agrotis spp.).

1954, Annual Scientific Report, Indian Agricultural Research Institute:

The stink-glands of many bugs are well known to most residents in India, whether by the characteristic odour of the common Bed-bug or by the disgusting taste in one's soup caused by a "gundy” which has been attracted by the lights on the dinner-table.

1914, Thomas Bainbrigge Fletcher, Some South Indian Insects and Other Animals of Importance Considered Especially from an Economic Point of View:

(India) A true bug (genus Leptocorisa), known for being a pest on rice and for its unpleasant smell.


seed bug

Any of various true bugs of the infraorder Pentatomomorpha

Any in the family Rhyparochromidae of dirt-colored see bugs.

Any of certain species in the genus Leptoglossus of conifer seed bugs.


lygus bug

Any of the genus Lygus of plant-feeding mirid insects.


water skipper

A motorized recreational over-water vehicle built from modifying a snowmobile, that is run at high speeds, to hydroplane across the surfaces of bodies of water.


pentatomoid

Any of the superfamily Pentatomoidea of true bugs.


kudzu bug

Megacopta cribraria, a shield bug native to India and China.


conchuela

The insect becomes freed from its old skin usually in the course of twenty or thirty minutes, although in one observation a conchuela in molting its fifth-instar skin required slightly over an hour.

1910, Austin Winfield Morrill, Plant-bugs Injurious to Cotton Bolls, page 41:

Chlorochroa ligata, a stinkbug of Central America and North America.


Dalman's leatherbug

Dalman's leatherbug (plural Dalman's leatherbugs)

Spathocera dalmanii, a species of leaf-footed bug found in Europe.


grass assassin bug

grass assassin bug (plural grass assassin bugs)

Any of the genus Lopodytes of assassin bugs.


North American wheel bug

North American wheel bug (plural North American wheel bugs)

Any of a species of wheel bug (Arilus cristatus), commonly found across North America and more specifically the United States.


ebony bug

From the black colour; coined to avoid the racial associations of negro.


naucoroid

en-adj

naucoroid (comparative more naucoroid, superlative most naucoroid)

more naucoroid (comparative)
most naucoroid (superlative)

Resembling, related to or pertaining to true bugs in the genus Naucoris or the family Naucoridae, the creeping water bugs


wheat bug

A seed bug of species Nysius huttoni, native to New Zealand but introduced to Europe, that is a pest on cereals and crucifers.


twice-stabbed stink bug

en-noun

twice-stabbed stink bug (plural twice-stabbed stink bugs)

Cosmopepla lintneriana, a pentatomid with two red spots at the apex of the scutellum.