Gall insect


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(Zool.) any insect that produces galls.

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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The discoid gall insect preferred colonized the central portion than the border portion or near mid vein on transversal regions on a leaflet in the pasture one.
Distribucion de una agalla discoide en el dosel de Caryocar brasiliense (Caryocaraceae)
The growth and physiological responses of Silphium integrifolium to gall insect attack.
Plant tolerance of gall-insect attack and gall-insect performance
Reliable, long-term sites are needed by gall insect species because most are unable to move to a new site once gall initiation has commenced.
Gall-forming insect diversity is linked to soil fertility via host plant taxon
Ananthakrishnan, (ed.), Biology of gall insects. Oxford & IBH Publishing Co., New Delhi, India.
Feeding and Other Gall Facets: Patterns and Determinants in Gall Structure
The "enemy hypothesis" refers to the evolutionary mechanisms of gall formation in gall insects. According to this theory, gall formation is the result of a defence strategy against natural enemies, particularly predators, parasitoids, and pathogens [28].
Population Dynamics of Native Parasitoids Associated with the Asian Chestnut Gall Wasp (Dryocosmus kuriphilus) in Italy
169-222 In Ananthakrishnan TN [Ed], Biology of Gall Insects, Oxford & IBH Publishing, New Delhi, India.
Host associations of gall-inducing Prodiplosis longifila (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) from Bolivia: implications for its use as a biological control agent for Jatropha gossypiifolia (Euphorbiaceae)
(Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) and gall insects, Leptocybe invasa.
The role of human activities on forest insect outbreaks worldwide/El papel de las actividades humanas sobre el forest insectos brotes en el mundo/Le role des activites humaines sur les forets infestations d'insectes dans le monde
Ants and other predators reduced the infestation of Eunica bechina Talbot 1928 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) and Edessa rufomarginata (De Geer, 1773) (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae), Prodiplosis floricola Felt 1907 (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae), petiole gall insects (Flymenoptera: Chalcidoidea)
Insectos chupadores in Caryocar brasiliense (Caryocaraceae) en el Cerrado (Brasil). (Seccion Basica: Articulos de investigacion)
2 A-F) and 233 gall insects were found on stems, belonging to two gall morphospecies (Fig.
Diversity of galling insects in Styrax pohlii (Styracaceae): edge effect and use as bioindicators
Chapters focus on foliage feeding insects, bark and ambrosia beetles, large cambium and wood boring insects, sucking and gall insects, shoot and regeneration insects and those of tree reproductive structures and of wood in use.
Forest entomology; a global perspective
bedeguaris has association with gall insects, especially cynipids.
The wasps associated with seeds and galls of Rosa canina in Iran