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Definition of Squash bug

Squash bug
Squash Squash, n. [Massachusetts Indian asq, pl. asquash, raw, green, immaturate, applied to fruit and vegetables which were used when green, or without cooking; askutasquash vine apple.] (Bot.) A plant and its fruit of the genus Cucurbita, or gourd kind. Note: The species are much confused. The long-neck squash is called Cucurbita verrucosa, the Barbary or China squash, C. moschata, and the great winter squash, C. maxima, but the distinctions are not clear. Squash beetle (Zo["o]l.), a small American beetle (Diabrotica, or Galeruca vittata) which is often abundant and very injurious to the leaves of squash, cucumber, etc. It is striped with yellow and black. The name is applied also to other allied species. Squash bug (Zo["o]l.), a large black American hemipterous insect (Coreus, or Anasa, tristis) injurious to squash vines.

Meaning of Squash bug from wikipedia

- Squash bug is a common name for several insects in the family Coreidae and may refer to: Acanthocoris scabrator Anasa tristis, native to North America...
- Anasa tristis is a species of bug in the family Coreidae. It is a major pest of squash and pumpkins, found throughout North America, and is a vector of...
- up bug in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Bugs may refer to killing people when interacting with them Plural of bug Bugs Bunny, a character Bugs Meany...
- status of species such as Anasa tristis on squash plants and other cucurbits gave rise to the name squash bugs. The Coreidae are called twig-wilters or...
- the similarly coloured though unrelated Corizus hyoscyami (cinnamon bug or squash bug). Pyrrhocoris apterus is distributed throughout the Palaearctic from...
- E. galeator. It is sometimes referred to by the common name "helmeted squash bug". Webb, Nick; Eades, David C. (2020). "species Euthochtha galeator (Fabricius...
- howardi), squash bug (Anasa tristis), the squash vine borer (Melittia cucurbitae), and the two-spotted spidermite (Tetranychus urticae). The squash bug causes...
- Anasa armigera, the horned squash bug, is a species of leaf-footed bug in the family Coreidae. It is found in North America. "Anasa armigera Report"....
- cosmopolitan family of the suborder Heteroptera of the order Hemiptera (true bugs). Among the Hemiptera and together with the Nabidae almost all species are...
- gonagra, known as the p****ionvine bug, citron bug or squash bug in different parts of its range, is a species of leaf-footed bug in the family Coreidae. It is...