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WHEAT MIDGE 
Thecodiplosts mosellana Gehin 
Wheat midge, ‘red maggot’ or ‘red weevil’’ is somewhat 
familiar to most wheat growers, though in recent years it has not 
been associated with material iosses of grain. The past two seasons 
this insect has been unusually abundant and in some fields excessively 
numerous. The urgent need of maximum production increased the 
importance of all insect pests and the status of the wheat midge was 
therefore studied in both the eastern and western grain-producing 
areas of New York. There have been, during recent years, some 
reports of the wheat midge being locally abundant, though there 
does not seem to have been any approach in recent years to the general 
prevalence of the insect such as obtained in 1917 and 19:8. Investi- 
gations demonstrated the general occurrence of the insect in both 
rye and wheat, the former being the main small grain crop in some 
of the eastern counties of the State and the latter the important small 
grain in the western counties. Investigations were begun in 1917 
and continued in 1918 and as a result we have considerable new 
information detailed below in regard to this insect and its present 
status as a grain pest. 
A not unimportant outcome of these studies has been the estab- 
lishment with a marked degree of certainty of the identity of the 
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