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Jeannie, thank you, and your site worked for me. They look to me like spangle galls, and now I have to look them up to be sure that they are caused by eggs or larvae of gall midges (flies) rather than gall wasps. After having done that in one book (Insects of Eastern Hardwood Trees, from Can. Forstry Service, Environment Canada (1982)), it seems these "red dots" may be galls from the MAPLE BLADDERGALL MITE, Vasates quadripedes (Shimer), although some of the spots that are quite flat and yellowish might be from the OCELLATE GALL MIDGE, Cecidomyia ocellaris (Osten Sacken). Interestingly, for the latter gall midge, "By the time the gall is seen, however, the tiny midge larva, which occupies a depression in the lower leaf surface, has usually fallen to the ground." I have another, larger and more recent, book that might provide more info', and I will check that soon. For those who don't know what galls are, they are sort of like benign tumours, and are abnormal growths on plants caused by various sorts of stimuli, mostly biological, from a great diversity of different kinds of organisms, from viruses to bacteria, fungi, insects, mites, nematodes (roundworms), etc., etc. Cheers from Jim ---------- From: Jeannie <jeannies@ns.sympatico.ca> Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2007 12:31:05 -0300 To: Jim Wolford <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> Subject: Try this URL Jim Or if you want I can send you the photo. http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2462231240025930195Ddemqn Jeannie Shermerhorn,Port Hawkesbury Cottage....Cape George,Cape Breton jeannies@ns.sympatico.ca
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