Definition of "mirid" []

• Any member of the insect family Miridae. (noun)

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• ""Our investigations in this case found that Marais and her company Zonda Resources Limited had imported and then bred large numbers of an insect known as a mirid bug (Macrolophus pygmaeus) and sold them for the biological control of the pest whitefly in commercial greenhouses," Mr Hayes says."
• "The study reported on mirid populations between nineteen ninety-seven and two thousand eight."
• "But a 10-year study across six major cotton-growing regions of China found that by spraying their crops less, farmers allowed mirid bugs to thrive and infest their own and neighbouring farms."