Triticum compactum erinaceum shallow. Its cheeks are usually angular. "T. compactum erinaceum" was grown alongside other species of wheat by Jesuit Monks in Monterey County California during the late eighteenth century. "T. comactum erinaceum" was presumed extinct after 1822, but proved to exist when in the summer of 1917 when it was rediscovered by E. F. Gaines, of the Washington Agricultural Experiment Station growing in the vicinity of May View, Washington. Again In 1929 "T. compactum erinaceum" was reported to be growing, in Douglas County, Oregon, on 322 acres. Triticum compactum erinaceum Triticum compactum erinaceum, also called California Club Wheat or Mayview wheat,
Cereal leaf beetle Cereal leaf beetle The cereal leaf beetle ("Oulema melanopus") is a significant crop pest, described by Carl Linnaeus in 1758. One generation of this beetle is produced a year. Adults feed before winter and spend most of their overwintering time in protected areas such as wind rows, crop stubble, and tree bark crevices. Adults mate once the temperature warms to above 9–10 degrees Celsius (or 44.6 degrees F) and females have a relatively long laying period (about 45–60 days), when they deposit eggs on the undersides of leaves. The larvae hatch in 7–15 days, and start the most damaging eating