apple midge

apple midge (plural apple midges)

1. (obsolete) A small dipterous insect (Lycoriella ingenua), the larva of which bores in apples.
2. Any midge whose larvae cause damage to apples.

• apple leaf midge
• Sciara mali
• Molobrus mali

• Sciara on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Sciara on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

• “apple midge”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.