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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...
Hi Richard, Margaret, AIUI, this is the only insect that galls Ganoderma in UK. (Until somebody rears something else out of it of course!) HTH Malcolm Storey...
Hello all I record in V17 and do not encounter wankowiczii often unless I visit sites where it is well known, such as Arbrook in Esher. Scotty M Redfern...
I have just received the following message. There are no records for this species on our database - can anyone help? Is it a gall-causer even?>> > My name is...
Thanks Margaret - I will pass on the information. I see there is another photo in my inbox from Eddie - it would be simpler to get him into the group. I think...
Hi everyone This is another of Eddies photos - can anyone help with ID? Janet I hope you don't mind but I am sending another, what we believe is a, plant gall...
Looks like Cryptosiphum artemisiae. Carl ... From: Janet Boyd To: British Plant Gall group Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 2:04 PM Subject: [british_galls] FW:...
Hi everyone, The following is the recent email correspondence I have had with Tracy. She is doing a PhD on invading cinipids and needs information/records. It...
Janet, Eriophyes canestrinii is in the gall keys and causes a gall on Buxus, distorting and enlarging a flower bud. Otherwise I know nothing about it - I've...
Hello everyone, I have been in contact with Annette and she welcomes any Diplolepis rosae gall wasps [labelled:date/grid ref etc] that you may have reared out...
Hi Maggie, I saw the email and thought I would try to send some, although so far, as is often the case, I hardly ever seem to find rose bedguars on my local...
