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n. - Any of various insects that deposit their eggs in plants causing abnormal swelling of plant tissue in which the larvae feed;

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  • (Odontoteomen obesus), white grubs (Halorachia spp.), and the gallfly
  • The abundance of knapweed leads to lots of gallfly larvae, which serve as a food subsidy for the mice.
  • We see this even in so trifling a fact as that the same poison often similarly affects plants and animals; or that the poison secreted by the gallfly produces monstrous...
  • We see this even in so trifling a circumstance as that the same poison often similarly affects plants and animals; or that the poison secreted by the gallfly produces...
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