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