MSU protects against wheat midge BOZEMAN, Mont. -- Montana State University and wheat growers across the state are working together to protect the state's billion-dollar wheat industry from a tiny ...

Prolonged drought in North Dakota has reduced the risk of wheat midge infestations during the upcoming growing season, according to North Dakota State University researchers.

FARGO - Soil samples in North Dakota indicate low levels of overwintering wheat midge larvae (cocoons) for the 2013 season, according to Janet Knodel, North Dakota State University Extension ...

Soil samples in North Dakota indicate increasing levels of overwintering wheat midge larvae (cocoons) for the 2020 season, says Janet Knodel, North Dakota State University Extension entomologist.

Wheat producers in northwest Montana experienced an unprecedented insect outbreak during the 2006 growing season of the orange wheat blossom midge. Infested spring wheat fields that normally yield ...

Soil samples in North Dakota indicate low levels of overwintering wheat midge larvae (cocoons) for the 2018 season, according to Janet Knodel, North Dakota State University Extension Service ...

FARGO - Soil sample tests in North Dakota indicate a dramatic increase in levels of overwintering wheat midge larvae (cocoons) for the 2011 season, according to Janet Knodel, North Dakota State ...

Hot, dry conditions could have prevented wheat midge larvae from dropping out of wheat heads during late summer.

Both the orange and lemon species of wheat blossom midge were found in crops at susceptible growth stages last year, leading to localised economic damage. However, ADAS entomologist Steve Ellis ...

This little animal is the wheat midge -- the cicidomyia tritici of the entomologist. It was long known in England, but was supposed to be vegetable, not animal.

A total of 2,070 soil samples were collected from 22 counties in the fall of 2021 to estimate the statewide risk for wheat midge in the 2022 wheat growing season. The distribution of wheat midge ...