Hello everyone, I've just uploaded photos into my album of some galls that I found this afternoon, at our local park. I think that they are mite galls: ...
Hello Maggie, This is definitely Vasates quadripedes. In the Netherlands we see it on nearly every Acer saccharinum. The galls sometimes turn bright red and ...
Hi Jojanneke, Thanks for confirming the i/d. It is the first time that I have seen this gall in Leicester, although the Acer saccharinum trees have been in...
Hello all Just a note to invite members to a plant gall and leaf miner recording event in the Epsom area, Surrey, V17. Meet at Ashstead Station 10:30am, Sunday...
Yesterday morning I noticed extensive patches of discolouration of the leaves on Ground Elder in Nottingham University Jubilee Campus. A quick glance suggested...
... Hi Malcolm, I must say it does look very much the same. I usually have the sense to I check your site, but missed it out this. Perhaps it was the...
Hello, Can any of you help identify this gall found on a pear tree leaf in Devon? Would be interesting to know if you are familar with it, and have any...
Hi hengle, It's a gall of the rust Gymnosporangium. There are two spp on pear: G. confusum and G. sabinae, but they can only be distinguished under the ...
Hi Anna, I agree with Malcolm. I have this gall on my cordon pears every year [identified for me by a member of Leics. Fungi Study Group] but have yet to find...
Dear all I am new to this group and am about to start a PhD project involving Cynipid gall wasps and oak trees. During some preliminary work this year I have...
Hello Frazer and welcome to the group My suggestions for your galls, following Redfern et al, 2002, are; A = Andricus solitarius (asexual) mature gall B =...
Hi there, just to add to Frazers pictures: The gall A is about 2-3 times the size of an A. solitarius. Also the tip is somewhat broken off (difficult to see...
Quite right Karsten I should look more closely - I completely missed the size scale! I have a pic of a young fecundator somewhere, I will dig it out for...
Scotty, A. aries with inquilines has occured to me and we should be able to go back, find anotherone and cut it open. However, these were old galls - has...
Hello Frazer, Scotty & Karsten, An interesting discussion...... would it be possible to rear out galls A & B to see what emerges and identify the gall wasps?...
Hello Frazer, The suggested Andricus solitarium (B) by Scotty has several wavy ridges...so is it maybe possible it is Andricus nudus asexual generation, which...
Carl Your specimens arrived safely, despite the postal strike. I was able to retrieve and process two third instar larvae and the two galls were still in...
Thanks to everyone for their suggestions on my mysterious oak galls. In response, I have opened several of gall A and in all cases there were a number of...
I've just received the following message from Eddie - can anyone help with identification? Hello Janet I have attached another possible gall found at the...
Dear gall people, Annette Kohnen from Marburg, Germany, asked me if I know people who might want to help her collect specimen of rose bedeguar galls...
Hi everyone, This is the gall of Eupontania (= Pontania) pedunculi, looking a bit odd because the leaves are so small. But the photo shows the rounded scar on...
Whilst on a fungus foray today we found galls on the underside of the bracket fungus Gandoderma applanatum. Margaret's book indicates that Agathomyia...
Richard, I think this species is not uncommon at least in the south, as far north as Leics. But I haven't got records myself, nor do I know whether other...
