. St. Nicholas [serial]. QUEER GALLS ON A STRAWBERRY STEM. ?%i . VaX,. a queer strawberry stem. Sawkill, St. Nicholas: I inclose a wild strawberrystem and leaf and would like to know what is the mat-ter with the stem. It looks very much like a little podwith seeds in it. Please tell me what it is because Iwant to know. Your loving reader, Mabel C. Stark (age 14). These enlargements are made by a gall-flyof the genus Cy7iipida, but the species and lifehistory of the fly are not known. I am de-sirous of securing fresh specimens of straw-berry stems with enlargements of this our
. St. Nicholas [serial]. QUEER GALLS ON A STRAWBERRY STEM. ?%i . VaX,. a queer strawberry stem. Sawkill, St. Nicholas: I inclose a wild strawberrystem and leaf and would like to know what is the mat-ter with the stem. It looks very much like a little podwith seeds in it. Please tell me what it is because Iwant to know. Your loving reader, Mabel C. Stark (age 14). These enlargements are made by a gall-flyof the genus Cy7iipida, but the species and lifehistory of the fly are not known. I am de-sirous of securing fresh specimens of straw-berry stems with enlargements of this our young folks please try to find a fewand send to me packed in moist cotton in asmall firm box? THE QUEER FOUR-LEAVED CLOVER. Notice that the upper right leaflet of the four has a long stem. THE RED SUBSTANCE ON A GRASSHOPPER. MONTCLAIR, N. J. Dear St. Nicholas : This morning, while on awalk, a friend and I found a grasshopper with some redthings between its immature wings. The red thingswere about six in number, and about as large as a pin-head. Will you please tell
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