wheat-midge

Updated: January 23, 2026

Those known as flycatchers may do neither harm nor good; so far as they eat the wheat-midge and Hessian fly they confer a positive benefit; in other instances they destroy both friends and enemies. Birds that are only partly insectivorous, and which eat grain and fruit, may need further inquiry. Prof.

Various - Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881