Thanks Maggie. It's appreciated. I had no idea that VC55 was such an epicentre of activity! I'll keep in touch Kind Regards Russ...
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Colin Jacobs
benacre2001
Jul 20, 2012 4:56 pm
After many years of searching found the fungal gall on alder cones today in lowestoft, I think its the first record for TM59? Â Colin Jacobs. Naturalist...
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Keith
keithpalmer17
Jul 20, 2012 7:48 pm
Colin, Michael Chinery in his photographic guide stated that, although Taphrina alni had spread in recent times from being a localised and rare Western...
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Colin Jacobs
benacre2001
Jul 20, 2012 7:55 pm
Just one gall on a large tree as far as I could see. These tress were planted in 1996 as part of a spine road re planting now there is a source the trees could...
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Robert Maidstone
maidstonerobert
Jul 21, 2012 7:01 am
Alder cone galls are widespread in Norfolk. It was first found in 1998 at New Buckenham and subsequently at Wacton, Upton, Thompson, Saxthorpe, Larling,...
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bleem
bleem...
Jul 23, 2012 2:11 pm
Hello Today i found this gall at the underside on a oak leaf (Quercus robur). Size is 3 mm. I found two other copies at other leaves yet. Which species can...
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Andrew
theajc321
Jul 23, 2012 3:34 pm
Hello, I seem to be struggling to find much information through Google on Myzus ligustri. I believe I came across it on some garden privet last week but can...
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DAVID SAVAGE
david157068
Jul 23, 2012 5:15 pm
Hi I find Myzus ligustri quite common on hedges about Yorkshire but depends on how frequent the hedge is cut. Â Regards David ________________________________...
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Andrew
theajc321
Jul 23, 2012 7:03 pm
Evening David, Thanks, your experiences prove my suspicions that the NBN Gateway map is unreliable for this species as I think it only shows one or two dots...
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Robert Maidstone
maidstonerobert
Jul 25, 2012 5:41 am
Hi all, I have collected two 'forms' of what keys out Aceria ilicis. a) low, 1-2 mm, broad flat topped bulge or no bulge with chocolate brown hairs...
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Jerry Clough
jrclough2
Jul 25, 2012 9:55 am
Hi Robert, This rings a bell. I found similar galls on Quercus ilex in the Maidenhead area in early 2008 (first post in thread here). I have not thought much...
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Robert Maidstone
maidstonerobert
Jul 26, 2012 7:46 am
Hi Jerry, Don't you start complicating things! These 'domed' galls are from the same tree as I collected the Trioza type gall. I'm a month later this year so...
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Colin Jacobs
benacre2001
Jul 27, 2012 3:15 pm
Could someone verify this please? I just cannot key it out, (what did I do wrong) I am sure its on young Alder? I dont think its Hazel or Poplar. MTA ...
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Volker Faessler
bleem...
Jul 27, 2012 4:04 pm
Hi Colin If it is Alnus, perhaps Acaricalus trinotus?? Volker...
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quercuscorticis
Jul 27, 2012 4:21 pm
Surely it's Taphrina tosquinetii? Carl...
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bleem
bleem...
Jul 27, 2012 4:26 pm
Hi Taphrina tosquinettii is also possible Volker...
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Margaret Redfern
taxomyia
Jul 30, 2012 1:36 pm
It certainly looks like alder and I reckon the gall is caused by the fungus Taphrina tosquineti, as Carl says. Margaret...
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Janet Boyd
janetboyd2005
Jul 31, 2012 8:02 pm
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Janet Boyd
janetboyd2005
Jul 31, 2012 8:09 pm
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Robert Maidstone
maidstonerobert
Aug 1, 2012 5:16 am
I'm scanning in my gall drawings and updating the names and have a drawing of a piece of Dock stem, identified as Rumex sanguineus, which is swollen and...
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Janet Boyd
janetboyd2005
Aug 1, 2012 6:19 am
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Malcolm Storey
bioimages2000
Aug 2, 2012 8:24 am
Hi Robert, Have you uploaded the drawings yet? (Hope you included enough leaf to show it wasn't Rumex acetosa.) Suppose you ought to check the spores under a...
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Jerry Clough
jrclough2
Aug 2, 2012 9:51 am
I had a brief chance to do some gall hunting on Saturday morning and found galls on Burnet Rose at Red Rocks SSSI, Hoylake, Wirral. I only took one gall from a...
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Colin Jacobs
benacre2001
Aug 2, 2012 10:01 am
For those on facebook there is now a group called British Plant Galls and their causers ...
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Keith
orseolia
Aug 2, 2012 2:15 pm
Difficult to say for sure but these could be stem galls induced by Janetiella frankumi. The location and the timing are right but ideally galls should be...
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Colin Jacobs
benacre2001
Aug 2, 2012 3:33 pm
I found a colony of Silk Spangle Galls today in Waveney Forest Fritton VC25 East Suffolk. on one tree only. As I reported I have noticed a significant decrease...
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Steve McWilliam
steve.mcwill...
Aug 2, 2012 4:59 pm
Jerry, Can I possibly ask you to put your Diplolepis spinosossomae record (and any other records you may have for teh Cheshire region) into RODIS (rECOrd...
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Colin Jacobs
benacre2001
Aug 3, 2012 6:24 am
Sorry but I just cannot seem to find the correct Id of these galls, the nearest I get is Neuroterus sp MTA ...
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Margaret Redfern
taxomyia
Aug 3, 2012 9:03 am
I think that you'd always have to open the galls when they are young. Later in August when the *J. frankumi* galls have split open to release the larvae, the...
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Robert Maidstone
maidstonerobert
Aug 3, 2012 7:45 pm
Thanks Malcolm, Leaves cetainly not R acetosa. Collected back in 2003. I have a bit of the dried stem so will get a piece to a Norfolk mycological expert...
