Each one will contain males and two different types of females: fast-growing and slow-growing. Both will mate with the males, but the slow-growing ones won't mature until the following spring... they're the form that overwinters and comes out to infest the newly emerged leaves.
Insects and many other animals find that the idea of having only two genders is rather limiting and they are quite happy to have a variety to suit their needs.
I'm a bit disappointed in myself for losing track of the Avengers series you write, and how long has it been since I've seen a rubyverse post! ;) I'm definitely interested in reading. Bring it on!
I'm still surprised you read any of it! The last rubyverse series ended in November 2013 and I wasn't sure I was ever going to pick it up again... I was a bit burned out on it after 14 multi-chapter stories that spanned months at a time and then countless one-shots, but I had ideas for it that I never got around to... and most of them do not involve smut. The Avengers series is just fun to write and always seems to involve smut, which is also fun, and I'm not quite emotionally invested in it the same way I am with my rubyverse, which at this point is so AU that it's nearly ridiculous and contains numerous non-canon characters main character (which I swore at the beginning I would never do
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They are somewhat like skin polyps... both are situations where something (with polyps it's often a harmless virus) confuses the leaf or skin tissue into growing in unusual ways.
Well done. Now I have discovered the same galls here on the leaves of a wild cherry! It seems the same mite lives here too! Thank you and Honey for solving the Mystery!
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Fascinating!
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I should probably get with the program and find one of those things where you can upload stuff and give other people access to it.
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Thank you and Honey for solving the Mystery!
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