wheat midge

wheat midge

English

Noun

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

Synonyms

• (Contarinia tritici): lemon wheat blossom midge, wheat blossom midge, wheat yellow blossom midge, yellow wheat blossom midge
• (Sitodiplosis mosellana): orange wheat blossom midge, orange wheat gall midge, wheat orange blossom midge

Translations

Contarinia tritici

Finnish: vehnäsääski

Mayetiola destructor — see Hessian fly

Sitodiplosis mosellana

Danish: orangegul hvedegalmyg c Finnish: tähkäsääski Norwegian: Bokmål: rød hvetegallmygg m Swedish: röd vetemygga c

Lasioptera obfuscata

Further reading

• European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization (EPPO) database (Contarinia tritici)
• European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization (EPPO) database (Sitodiplosis mosellana)
• wheat midge in Merriam Webster (Sitodiplosis mosellana and Mayetiola destructor)
• wheat midge in English Wikipedia (Mayetiola destructor) Wheat midge
• wheat-midge in Wordnik (Diplosis tritici and Lasioptera obfuscata)