Flowering herbaceous plants in the Northern Blackland Prairies of Texas were sampled with a sweepnet in 1982 and 1983. Plant species were classified as nonhosts, feeding hosts, or reproductive hosts of the tarnished plant bug, Lygus lineolaris (Palisot de Beauvois). Reproductive hosts were classified as early-season hosts, hosts supporting insect populations that move into cotton, or hosts providing insects for the next year's populations. Changing agronomic practices and plant succession, resulting in increased abundance of broad-leaved hosts, may be responsible for the increasing seriousness of tarnished plant bug pest status.
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