cotton stainer
(also ‘red bug’, ‘cotton stainer bug’, ‘cotton stainer insect’)
a kind of insect – different sub-species with different bright colours – the common colour being brown wings crossed with yellow, or bright red crossed with black; ½ an inch long with bright (red) middle body and long legs, with piercing (= making small holes) and sucking mouth parts; feeds mostly on cotton bolls (bud/fruit), and other fruit bearing plants; the whole life-span completes in 10-14 days; originally from southern Florida, USA, and Cuba, now found in many parts of the world
group ~~ aggregation (congregation ?)
a family of red bugs eating away leaves
The cotton stainer is the most destructive cotton pest. It also attacks fruit bearing trees, such as orange, peach, etc. and the ornamental plants. It is given the name ‘stainer’ as it stains the cotton fibre with a brownish yellow colour when it makes holes in the cotton bolls and sucks up the sap (juice) and eats up the growing seeds inside the bolls.
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