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WHEAT MIDGE 

 Thecodiplosis mosellana Gehin 



Wheat midge, " red maggot " or " red weevil " is somewhat 

 famiHar to most wheat growers, though in recent years it has not 

 been associated with material losses 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 19 17 and 19 18. Investi- 

 gations demonstrated the general occurrence of the insect in both 

 rye and wheat, the former being the main smiall 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 19 17 

 and continued in 19 18 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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