fungus gnat (redirected from fungus gnats)

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Noun	1.	fungus gnat - minute blackish gregarious flies destructive to mushrooms and seedlings sciara, sciarid dipteran, dipteron, dipterous insect, two-winged insects - insects having usually a single pair of functional wings (anterior pair) with the posterior pair reduced to small knobbed structures and mouth parts adapted for sucking or lapping or piercing genus Sciara - type genus of the Sciaridae: fungus gnat armyworm - larva of fungus gnat that feed on cereals and other grains; they march in large companies in regular order when the food is exhausted
	2.	fungus gnat - mosquito-like insect whose larvae feed on fungi or decaying vegetation dipteran, dipteron, dipterous insect, two-winged insects - insects having usually a single pair of functional wings (anterior pair) with the posterior pair reduced to small knobbed structures and mouth parts adapted for sucking or lapping or piercing family Mycetophylidae, Mycetophilidae - fungus gnats