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Definition of Gallflies
1. gallfly [n] - See also: gallfly
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gallflies
Literary usage of Gallflies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Butterflies and Bees: The Insect Folk : Volume II by Margaret Warner Morley (1905)
"... THE gallflies John says he has brought us some apples, but he fears A we will
not enjoy their flavor. ' M See ! the rogue has some oak apples, ..."
2. Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener and Home Farmer (1880)
"Birds, it is thought, seldom meddle with gallflies. Recent investigations prove
that the interior of a gall serves as a home in some cates for a succession ..."
3. Farm Friends and Farm Foes: A Text-book of Agricultural Science by Clarence Moores Weed (1910)
"All of them, however, are easily destroyed by spraying with arsenical poisons or
even with insect powder or hellebore. FOUR-WINGED gallflies The next most ..."
4. The Canadian Entomologist by Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ), Entomological Society of Ontario (1895)
"With the exception of some undetermined gallflies and parasites, ... The gallflies
and parasites above referred to will be recorded in some papers to be ..."
5. Entomological News and Proceedings of the Entomological Section of the by Entomological Section (1890)
"Greek Heteroptera collected by E. von Oertzen and J. Emge,* by OM Reuter.
Communications on gallflies from Kreise Siegen,* one plate; ..."
6. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia by American Entomological Society, Entomological Society of Philadelphia (1867)
"About the 10th of August, the gallflies began to escape in large numbers, the
pupa-skins ... Were these larvae the produce of the newly escaped gallflies, ..."
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