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Cecidomyiidae is a family of flies known as gall midges or gall gnats. As the name implies, the larvae of most gall midges feed within plant tissue, creating abnormal plant growths called galls . Cecidomyiidae are very fragile small insects usually only 2–3 mm (0.079–0.118 in) in length; many are less than 1 mm (0.039 in) long.
Hellas 2012: stamp catalogue and postal history = katalogos grammatosēmōn kai tachydromikē historia (Greece) Hermes (Greece) Hibernian (Ireland) [1] Jacobs, V.A. (Russia - USSR special catalogue) JB Catalogue (Malta) LAPE (Finland) [2] Standard catalogue is published annually, specialized catalogue replaces standard catalogue every few years.
General elections were held in South Africa on 29 May 2024 to elect a new National Assembly as well as the provincial legislature in each of the nine provinces. [1] [2] This was the 7th general election held under the conditions of universal adult suffrage since the end of the apartheid era in 1994.
Galls act as both the habitat and food source for the maker of the gall. The interior of a gall can contain edible nutritious starch and other tissues. Some galls act as "physiologic sinks", concentrating resources in the gall from the surrounding plant parts. [25] Galls may also provide the insect with physical protection from predators. [35] [24]
Gallic invaders settled the Po Valley in the 4th century BC, defeated Roman forces in a battle under Brennus in 390 BC, and raided Italy as far south as Sicily. [1] In the early 3rd century BC, the Gauls attempted an eastward expansion, toward the Balkan peninsula. At that time, it was a Greek province.
Galls made by D. vitifoliae on leaf of Vitis sp.. Grape phylloxera is an insect pest of grapevines worldwide, originally native to eastern North America.Grape phylloxera (Daktulosphaira vitifoliae (Fitch 1855) belongs to the family Phylloxeridae, within the order Hemiptera, bugs); originally described in France as Phylloxera vastatrix; equated to the previously described Daktulosphaera ...
Neuroterus saltatorius, also known as the jumping gall wasp, is a species of oak gall wasp. It is found in North America, where it induces galls on a variety of oak trees, including Oregon oak , valley oak , California scrub oak , blue oak , [ 1 ] [ 2 ] and leather oak .
In 1955, the two companies, Rand Daily Mail Ltd and the Sunday Times Syndicate Ltd were formed into a single company called South African Associated Newspapers (SAAN). [ 3 ] : 42 Prior to the formation, the Abe Bailey estate had 59.23% share in RDM and 26.17% in Sunday Times Syndicate which gave the estate 49.71% in the new company SAAN.