The Hemiptera are especially interesting as an order from the variety of aquatic insects included therein.
The minute insects included in it, which haunt blossoms and leaves, are fairly well known to gardeners by the name Thrips, a generic term used by Linnaeus for the four species of the group which he had examined and relegated to the order Hemiptera.
Other genera of the family are parasitic on Hemiptera - bugs and frog-hoppers - but nothing is known as to the details of their life-history.
C. Fabricius (1775), is used by many writers in preference to Hemiptera.
By far the most destructive insects in warm climates belong to the Hemiptera, especially to the Coccidae or scale insects.
