--- In british_galls@..., Janet Boyd <janetboyd_entomologist@...>
wrote:
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Hi Jan,

I'm only guessing, never having seen it, but would it be the sexual generation
gall caused by the cynipid wasp Trigonaspis megaptera? Perhaps someone else is
able to do better. I would like to know too.
'bye for now,
Maggie
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> Hi,
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> I received this request last night - could someone identify the galls for
Richard?
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> Janet
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> >
> > I work for Forest Enterprise Scotland as their native woodland
> > ecologist. I was asked to identify a gall earlier this week and, despite
> > spending some time reading through Redfern et al, I could not
> > confidently identify it as the gall concerned was on the bark (on burrs
> > ) of oak trees as well as on the shoots. The wood is in Dunbartonshire
> > (just west of Glasgow) low elevation. I wonder if you would be good
> > enough to identify the species for me?
> >
> > Many thanks,
> >
> > Richard Thompson
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