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What are those balls? They’re galls!

BUCYRUS — Perhaps you have noticed weird, ball-like plant growths while hiking through a park or even in your own backyard. These abnormalities growing on trees or other plants, called galls, are commonly formed by insects but are also caused by viruses, bacteria, fungi, or mites. Insect galls are typically species-specific as well as tissue-specific, […]

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