summit disease

Etymology


From, from the tendency of infected insects to climb to the upper parts of plants before dying.

Noun

 * 1)  A disease (usually fungal, caused by the species complex ) that affects various species of insect, especially grasshoppers, whereby the infected individual typically climbs to the upper parts of a plant, attaches itself there and dies, at which point the infecting agent disperses itself, usually in the form of spores.

Translations

 * French:
 * German: Gipfelkrankheit
 * Macedonian: