N.arly fifty years ago N. Wagner (1865) made the remarkable discovery that in the larvae of certain gall-midges (Cecidomyidae) the ovaries might become precociously mature and unfertilised eggs might be developed into small larvae observable within the body of the mother-larva; ultimately these abnormally reared young break their way out.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life-Story of Insects] Reference

Cecidomyidae, 68-70, 90.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life-Story of Insects] Reference