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Gall-midge definition

Any of numerous small flies of the family Cecidomyiidae, whose larvae cause the formation of galls in plants.
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Any of a family (Cecidomyiidae) of tiny midges that often produce galls on plants.
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Any insect of the Cecidomyiidae family, whose larvae damage crops and other plants, creating galls on the stems and other fleshy parts.
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Noun

Singular:
gall-midge
Plural:
gall-midges

Gall-midge Sentence Examples

  • Metchnikoff observed (1866) in the development of the parthenogenetic eggs produced by the precocious larva of the gall-midge Cecidomyia that a large " polar-cell " appeared at one extremity during the primitive cellsegmentation.

  • Wagner made his classical observations on the production of larvae from unfertilized eggs developed in the precociouslyformed ovaries of a larval gall-midge (Cecidomyid), and subsequent observers have confirmed his results by studies on insects of the same family and of the related Chironomidae.

  • P. Marchal has (1904) described this power in two small parasitic Hymenoptera - a Chalcid (Encyrtus) which lays eggs in the developing eggs of the small moth Hyponomeuta, and a Proctotrypid (Polygnotus) which infests a gall-midge (Cecidomyid) larva.

  • It lives in the grub of a gall-midge and it ultimately becomes changed into the usual white and fleshy hymenopterous larva.

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