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, are gray-white with brown heads. These gray insects are so called because they have lacelike wing covers. Lace bugs suck the sap from the undersides of fruit and ornamental tree leaves, leaving the upper sides mottled with small, light-gray areas.

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Learn more about controlling lace bugs. Flying or leaping when interrupted, these little, thin, wedge-shaped insects come in tones of green, brown and yellow, depending on the types. Leafhoppers feed upon a range of edible and ornamental plants and cause leaves to lose color, turn brown and become stippled. They likewise leave behind black excrement.

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Copper in color, Mexican bean beetles have 8 black areas on each wing cover. They skeletonize the leaves of beans (their chosen hosts), along with black-eyed peas, soybeans, cowpeas, mung beans, alfalfa and clover. The larvae are light yellow with a spiny appearance; the eggs are likewise yellow and found in clusters on leaves.

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Circular insects, scales are found on the stems of plants and the underside of leaves, and they often look like a part of the plant. The protective scale-like covering of these bugs might be difficult and armor-like or soft and cottony. Scales suck plant sap, developing honeydew and bring in ants, which safeguard the scales from predators and require treatment also.