wheat midge noun5 •Various dipterous insects of the family Cecidomyiidae (gall midges, gall gnats) that are pests of wheat. •Contarinia tritici (formerly Diplosis t.) that lays its eggs in the flowers of wheat-heads, and whose reddish larvae devour the kernels •Hessian fly, Mayetiola destructor •Sitodiplosis mosellana •Lasioptera obfuscata formswheat midges