The Plant-Feeding Gall Midges of North America. Raymond J. Gagne. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY 14850. 1989. 356 pp. $45.00 (cloth).

Abstract

(excerpt) Every once in a while a reference book comes along that is a special pleasure to review. Such a tome is The Plant-Feeding Gall Midges of North America by Raymond J. Gagne. You can appreciate the scope of this book only by realizing that gall midges attack numerous families of gymnosperms and angiosperms; both monocots and dicots. Greatly needed by entomologists and botanists, Gagne\u27s book not only updates Felt\u27s and Barne\u27s classic works of the forties and fifties, but it also supersedes them