Sentence examples for gall wasp from inspiring English sources
noun
Any insect of the family, whose larvae damage trees, particularly oak trees, creating galls on the branches.
So what's a red-blooded male gall wasp to do?
A tiny gall wasp created this wool sower gall when it laid its eggs.
Jones shows that 'Prok' was a repressed homosexual, fixated on masochistic masturbation, who began his career as an authority on the gall wasp, a tiny, flightless insect.
Kinsey (played as an adult by Liam Neeson) becomes a biologist, and devotes himself to the intensive study of the gall wasp.
Kinsey, who started off as a biologist specializing in the study of the gall wasp, was not so much a statistician as a taxonomist, someone who classified the variety of sexual behavior.
Even the ink recipe he uses is based on a formula first set down in the Talmud: a mixture of ground charcoal, water, glue and the powder of gallnuts, which trees form when a gall wasp lays her eggs there.
These include the Salicaceae-galling Euurina gall wasps that are sister to a group restricted to Salicaceae and Betulaceae, the Styrax-galling aphids Cerataphidini that are sister to a group restricted to Quercus, and the Eucalyptus-galling scale insect genus Apiomorpha that is sister to a group that occurs on Eucalyptus and Casuarinaceae.
"Human beings are just bigger, slightly more complicated gall wasps".
Pollination is accomplished by small wasps called or gall wasps, of the genus Blastophaga.
In some gall wasps (Cynipidae) no males have yet been observed.
In the ancient genus Ficus (figs and banyan trees), pollination still depends on gall wasps.
