Usually means: Pest insect damaging wheat crops.
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  1. wheat midge: Merriam-Webster
  2. wheat-midge, wheat midge: Wordnik
  3. wheat midge: Wiktionary
  4. Wheat midge: Dictionary.com
  5. Wheat midge: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. wheat midge: FreeDictionary.org
  7. Wheat midge: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Wheat midge: HYPP Zoology

Definitions from Wiktionary (wheat midge)

noun:  Various dipterous insects of the family Cecidomyiidae (gall midges, gall gnats) that are pests of wheat:
noun:  Contarinia tritici (formerly Diplosis t.) that lays its eggs in the flowers of wheat-heads, and whose reddish larvae devour the kernels
noun:  Hessian fly, Mayetiola destructor
noun:  Sitodiplosis mosellana
noun:  Lasioptera obfuscata

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