CEREAL LEAF BEETLE Definition & Meaning

cereal leaf beetle

noun

an Old World leaf beetle, Oulema melanopus, introduced into North America in 1962: a serious pest of small grains, especially oats and cereal grasses.

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Origin of cereal leaf beetle¹

First recorded in 1960–65

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Sanford Eigenbrode, an entomologist at the University of Idaho in Moscow, is studying parasitic wasps that attack the cereal leaf beetle, a pest of wheat throughout the northwestern United States.

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