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The rice weevil (Sitophilus oryzae) ... An adult emerges from inside a grain of rice. Adult rice weevils are able to fly, [6] and can live for up to two years ...
Orseolia oryzae, also called the Asian rice gall midge, is a species of small fly in the family Cecidomyiidae. It is a major insect pest of rice. [2] [3] [4] The damage to the crop is done by the larvae which form galls commonly known as "silver shoots" or "onion shoots". The rice plant is stunted and the seed heads fail to develop.
Atherigona miliaceae (finger millet shoot fly or little millet shoot fly): affects Panicum miliaceum, Panicum sumatrense; Atherigona naqvii (wheat stem fly): affects Triticum aestivum, Zea mays; Atherigona orientalis (tomato fly or pepper fruit fly) Atherigona oryzae (rice shoot fly): affects Oryza sativa, Paspalum scrobiculatum, Triticum ...
Flies at P.F. Chang’s. See inspections at 15 Miami area restaurants ... Out on the shelves, a “package of white rice on the retail display shelf was found with live grain insects.” Stop Sale ...
Atherigona oryzae, the rice shoot fly, is a species of fly in the family Muscidae. It is found in Asia and Australia. It is found in Asia and Australia. It is known to affect rice, kodo millet , wheat, and corn crops.
Atherigona miliaceae (finger millet shoot fly or little millet shoot fly): affects Panicum miliaceum, Panicum sumatrense; Atherigona naqvii (wheat stem fly): affects Triticum aestivum, Zea mays; Atherigona orientalis (tomato fly or pepper fruit fly) Atherigona oryzae (rice shoot fly): affects Oryza sativa, Paspalum scrobiculatum, Triticum ...
Many species are economically significant, especially the Hessian fly, a wheat pest, as the galls cause severe damage. Other important pests of this family are the wheat blossom midge Sitodiplosis mosellana, the Asian rice gall midge (Orseolia oryzae) and the African rice gall midge O. oryzivora.
Diopsis macrophthalma Dalman, 1817, is a pest of rice and sorghum in tropical Africa. The peculiar morphology of stalk-eyed flies makes it easy to identify their fossils (e.g. in amber); one fossil genus is Prosphyracephala, known from Eocene aged Baltic amber. [6] This genus has stalked eyes and is the earliest diverging member of the ...