Hi everyone,
The attached photo does look like the description of Campiglossa argyrocephala as Quentin Groom suggests. The Keys say that it is found in Scotland and is rare (page 277). Can we confirm this as a record?
Janet
From: PandKStannard@...
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:49:06 -0400
Subject: gall on a sneezewort
To: janetboyd_entomologist@...
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The attached photo does look like the description of Campiglossa argyrocephala as Quentin Groom suggests. The Keys say that it is found in Scotland and is rare (page 277). Can we confirm this as a record?
Janet
From: PandKStannard@...
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:49:06 -0400
Subject: gall on a sneezewort
To: janetboyd_entomologist@...
I farm in the North York Moors National Park at Danby Dale and have a field that is registered as a species rich wild flower meadow. In August I found what I thought was a flower that I could not identify and after trying to research it to no avail, I got in touch with Quentin Groom of the Botanical Society who told me that it is a sneezewort that has a gall and he thinks it is campiglia argyrophylla. He suggested I get in touch with your society to have this confirmed. I am afraid I am totally ignorant of the world of galls having believed that they were limited to the likes of the oak apples; I find it amazing how altered the plant has become. Eleven plants were affected similarly by it. I have attached one of the photographs that I took of them.
Kate Stannard
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