wheat midge

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wheat midge (plural wheat midges)

  1. Various dipterous insects of the family Cecidomyiidae (gall midges, gall gnats) that are pests of wheat:
    1. Contarinia tritici (formerly Diplosis t.) that lays its eggs in the flowers of wheat-heads, and whose reddish larvae devour the kernels
    2. Hessian fly, Mayetiola destructor
    3. Sitodiplosis mosellana
    4. Lasioptera obfuscata

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