Abstract
This document is EENY-078, one of a series of Featured Creatures from the Entomology and Nematology Department, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. Published: March 1999. Revised: October 2001.
EENY078/IN235: Garden Fleahopper, Microtechnites bractatus (Say) (Hemiptera: Miridae) (ufl.edu)
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