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Wheat midge Moderate

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Noun
1

Various dipterous insects of the family Cecidomyiidae (gall midges, gall gnats) that are pests of wheat:

2

Contarinia tritici (formerly Diplosis t.) that lays its eggs in the flowers of wheat-heads, and whose reddish larvae devour the kernels

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