Digitize This, by Marlene Bruce
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According to Alison, these bumps are called galls, created when insects lay their eggs on a leaf. The eggs secrete a hormone which causes the leaf to grow a parasitic casing around the eggs (which the larvae later feed off of). There were several types of galls in this neck of the woods…