RED MAGGOT. 
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Deep ploughing, so as to bury the Tlirips well down, or dressings 
of salt, or anything to poison the surface of the land, would be useful 
where the corn was known to have been badly infested. 
Removal of waste pieces or headlands of wild grass would also be 
desirable, as these serve as propagating grounds, as well as winter 
shelters, from which the Tlirips come out on the corn. 
Wheat Midge. Cecidomyict (? tritici), Kirby. 
1—6, larvas, nat. size and magnified; 7 and 8, part of horns, magnified ; 
9 and 10, Wheat Midge, nat. size and mag.; infested floret. 
The following observations refer to the loss caused by presence of 
Red Maggot in seed of Meadow Foxtail Grass, both imported and 
home-saved; but they bear also on the point of maggot-attack being 
conveyed in seeds, and also on the Red Maggot of the Wheat, or other 
kinds so nearly allied as to be indistinguishable from it, being found 
to a large amount in grass. 
On the 7th of January I received a communication from Mr. James 
Hunter, Chester, requesting the name of larvas enclosed taken from 
seed-heads of Alopecurus pratensis (Meadow Foxtail Grass). These 
proved to be maggots of a Cecidomyict, and very nearly, but not quite, 
similar to the well-known Red Maggot of the common Wheat Midge, 
Cecidomyict tritici; and from further examination during the season it 
appeared that the Foxtail Grass was subject to attacks of one or more 
kinds of these Wheat or Grass Midge maggots. 
Mr. Hunter mentioned with regard to seed sent from Germany, 
Russia, &c., that the seed of the Meadow Foxtail harvested in 1882 
contained about 25 per cent, infested by larvae, and of course the 
germination of the seed was injuriously affected to that extent. The 
seeds of 1888, however, were only affected to ilie extent of 5 per cent. 
