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Journal
Magazine of Natural History and Journal of ZoologyYear
1829Volume
v. 1 (1829)Page
Page 227Species
Coordinates: [502, 1054, 0, 0, 0, 0], Details: "common"=>["gnat", "", "Gnat", "Hessian Fly", "Hessian fly"], "scientific"=>["Tipula tritici", "tipula tritici", "", "Cecidomyia destructor"]Inscription
Coordinates: [581, 988, 0, 0, 0, 0], Details: "text"=>["To this same genus the Hessian fly, according to Mr. Say, also belongs, and he names it Cecidomyia destructor (b).", "91", "I had, in the Linnean Transactions, long ago, under the name Tipula tritici (fig. 91a, given an account of a little ornage-coloured gnat, which I conceived to be injurious to the wheat crops of this country, by causing the inanition of the grain wherever it laid an egg, which was within the glumes of the florets."]Drawing
Coordinates: [0, 0, 371, 960, 348, 311], Details: "keywords"=>["entomology", "gnat", "orange-coloured", "hessian fly", "larvae ", "insects", "North America", "agriculture", "pests", "fly", "insect", "Hessian fly", "wheat", "Aristotle", "Plato", "Pythagoras", "Insect", "tipula tritici", "biology", "eggs", "wheat damage", "agricultural pest", "natural history", "America", "agricultural pests"]PageID
2259324Classification No
15Image Scale
0.360268
