Just trying to contact Richard for permission - he has sent an automated 'out of office' message at the moment.
Janet
 
> To: british_galls@...
> From: graham.stone@...
> Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 14:33:37 +0100
> Subject: Re: [british_galls] FW: Help with identification please?
>
> Dear Janet,
> I've just seen your gall images, and catching up on the opinions of the wise.
>
> I am certain that the gall on shoot image is of a sexual generation
> NEuroterus quercusbaccarum.
>
> I think the other galls on the bark are probably sexual generation
> Trigonaspis megaptera. The more variable gall shape, and the cross
> section, match illustrations of this species and my own limited
> experience of finding them in continental Europe. I don't have a
> photograph of this gall to compare Richard's with, though, or i'd post
> it.
>
> Would you put me in direct contact with Richard? I am compiling a set
> of images for a big book on oak galls, and would love to ask him if we
> could use a higher resolution version of this picture. Even better
> would be to get a sample of the galls. Even if he doesn't have adults,
> we can tell very quickly what the gall inducer is from a larva or
> pupa, for sure!
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Graham Stone
>
>
>
>
> Quoting Janet Boyd <janetboyd_entomologist@...>:
>
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I received this request last night - could someone identify the
> > galls for Richard?
> >
> > Janet
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >>
> >> 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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