chinch

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

Cimex lectularius
Cimex lectularius#Translingual


bedbug

bedbugs (plural)
bed bug (alternative)
bed-bug (alternative)

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 in temperate Europe of species Nepa cinerea.


firebug

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


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

water strider
water strider#English:_Q270322


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).


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

stinkbugs (plural)
stink bug (alternative)
stink-bug (alternative)

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


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


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

water bugs (plural)
waterbug (alternative)

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.


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.


coriscid

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


corixid

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


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

Borrowed from translingual Lygaeidae, from the type genus, translingual Lygaeus, borrowed from Ancient Greek λῡγαῖος (lūgaîos, “dark, gloomy”).

der

(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 of water scorpions.


notonectid

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


ochterid

(zoology) Any insect in the family Ochteridae.


piesmatid

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


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.


termitaphidid

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


cotton stainer

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


toe biter

toe biters (plural)
toe-biter (alternative)

Referring to the powerful bite containing proteolytic enzymes.

(Canada, 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.


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.


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).


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)


harlequin bug

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


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.


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.


cimicomorphan

Any true bug of the infraorder Cimicomorpha


leptopodomorphan

Any true bug of the infraorder Leptopodomorpha


nepomorphan

Any true bug of the infraorder Nepomorpha


scorpion bug

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


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

water skippers (plural)
waterskipper (alternative)
water-skipper (alternative)

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.


Dalman's leatherbug

Dalman's leatherbug (plural Dalman's leatherbugs)

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


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.