Chinch-bug


noun
1.
a small lygaeid bug, Blissus leucopterus, that feeds on corn, wheat, and other grains.
noun
1.
a black-and-white tropical American heteropterous insect, Blissus leucopterus, that is very destructive to grasses and cereals in the US: family Lygaeidae
2.
a related and similar European insect, Ischnodemus sabuleti

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