Mayetiola destructor
Hessian Fly
- Category
- invertebrate
- Primary role
- pest insect
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Diptera
- Family
- Cecidomyiidae
- Genus
- Mayetiola
Animalia | Arthropoda | Insecta | Diptera | Cecidomyiidae | Mayetiola
External: GBIF #1594566
11 AI-consensus-verified claims across 2 interaction categories.
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herbivory 7 claims
- This entity is the subject of herbivory on Triticum aestivum (Wheat) · effect: harmful
“females lay eggs on the leaves of early-sown wheat”
eats ✓ 2/2 AI critics agreed - This entity is the subject of herbivory on Triticum aestivum (Wheat) · effect: harmful
“'Underhill' variety wheat resistant to the introduced Hessian fly, Mayetiola destructor”
eats ✓ 2/2 AI critics agreed - This entity is the subject of herbivory on Triticum aestivum (Wheat) · effect: harmful
“Larvae feed between the leaf sheath and stalk, causing stunted and weakened plants”
eats ✓ 2/2 AI critics agreed - This entity is the subject of herbivory on Hordeum vulgare (Barley) · effect: harmful
“The species also attacks barley and rye but to a lesser extent”
eats ✓ 2/2 AI critics agreed - This entity is the subject of herbivory on Secale cereale (Rye) · effect: harmful
“also attacks barley and rye but to a lesser extent”
eats ✓ 2/2 AI critics agreed - This entity is the subject of herbivory on Triticum aestivum (Wheat) · effect: harmful
“the plowing under and disposal of stubble may still be a practical procedure”
eats ✓ 2/2 AI critics agreed - This entity is the subject of herbivory on Triticum (genus) · effect: harmful
“best-known examples of the phenomenon occurs in the Hessian fly, Mayetiola destructor”
eats ✓ 2/2 AI critics agreed
pest pressure 4 claims
- This entity is the subject of pest pressure on Triticum aestivum (Wheat) · effect: harmful
“resistance to Hessian fly in wheat cultivars”
eats ✓ 2/2 AI critics agreed - This entity is the subject of pest pressure on Triticum aestivum (Wheat) · effect: harmful
“Winter wheat is injured in the spring when maggots feed between the leaf sheath and the stem”
eats ✓ 2/2 AI critics agreed - This entity is the object of pest pressure by Triticum aestivum (Wheat) · effect: harmful
“hessian fly (Mayetiola destructor) resistant wheat cultivar, Underhill, in the US”
eats ✓ 2/2 AI critics agreed - This entity is the subject of pest pressure on Poaceae (family) · effect: harmful
“hydrogen phosphide for control of Hessian fly in hay”
eats ✓ 2/2 AI critics agreed