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Dear Colin Are you sure it is not the exit holes caused by the moth Cydia ulicetana which is out at the moment in the Channel Islands and may be out in Norfolk...
I am not but as the county recorder has said something else I am open minded, will certainly look up the moths distribution in norfolk  Colin Jacobs. ...
To me, these look like galls of Asphondylia ulicis that have been opened up by birds, possibly tits, to feed on final instar larvae and/or pupae that will be...
Thanks to this thread I have been paying close attention to Gorse flowers, and believe I found this gall yesterday at Ashley Hill, Berkshire (SU8281). I opened...
Here is a new site for uploading and sharing british plant galls http://www.flickr.com/groups/britishplantgalls/pool/Â Â Colin Jacobs. Naturalist. Norwich ...
Hi all, I've found Nettle Clustercup this year in two forms - neat round aecia or large swollen distortions with aecia at two different sites. One site, a ...
Hi Robert, I think the best place to start is the online version of the Basdiomycota checklist. A quick search gives the following varieties of P. urticata,...
Ø Malcolm Storey's bioimages <http://www.bioinfo.org.uk/html/Puccinia_urticata.htm> has a lot of host plant relationships extracted from various sources...
'Age of infection' is that age of the nettle, age of the spore that infected it or the time the fungus has been growing? The pictures on bioimages are...
Ø 'Age of infection' is that age of the nettle, age of the spore that infected it or the time the fungus has been growing? Was thinking of the time the...
Hi all, I have uploaded some photos to the album 'Ribes alpinum' This is clearly a true gall and the plant is definitely R. alpinum, but the colour of the...
I have been looking at more of these galls and concur with the opinion that the holes are created by birds which then extract the larva or pupa. Indeed the...
I have since checked my Galls and others on Gorse, (But hard to find unless you get your eye in) and concur with Keith. I will contact the BPGS recorder Rex...
Hi there. try the BPGS web site It will have details there. Â Colin Jacobs. Naturalist. Norwich Norfolk VC27 ________________________________ From: dshubble...
 Hi just sorting through my images and found this unknown gall has anyone else seen it? please. http://www.flickr.com/photos/30854310@N02/7128037497/ Colin...
Hi Colin Looks like Wachtliella persicariae to me; it keys out fairly easily in Redfern and Shirley. Regards Neil ________________________________ Essex...
Hi Dave, Colin says for you to try the BPGS website - but both your messages are already posted on the forum! I suggest that you find the Committee List in...
Hi there, I've been in touch with a couple of aphid specialists and this turns out not to be Cryptomyzus after all but Hyperomyzus lactucae. This has broader...
Hi All David Clements is missing the Autumn 2006 and Spring 2007 issues of Cecidology and neither I nor Mike Chinery have spares. Does anyone have spares of...
Hi, not 'one for the 3rd edition' - we might need to throw out all the existing records for any aphid gall on Ribes! I've got green aphids on my both red and...
 Seems to be a good or bad year depending on which side of the fence you sit for Taphrina pruni The Pocket Galls on Prunus. Lots of affected fruits along...