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Hi everyone, I have just moved a message from my junk folder to my inbox and it has disappeared - it's not in my deleted messages folder either so I don't...
Hi Jan, If he's a member, then perhaps Alan will have his contact info. 'bye for now, Maggie ... From: Janet Boyd To: British Plant Gall group Sent: Wednesday,...
Janet I have sent a message to Charles via the e-mail form on the NBN Recorder Discussion Forum requesting him to re-make contact with you. Hope that helps. ...
Thanks to everyone who responded to my request re the missing message. Contact has been established. Charles seemed to find it amusing that my junk filter...
I've noticed galls on a Holm Oak in Kidwell's Park, Maidenhead. These are small raised pimples (2-3 mm, above leaf dorsal surface) with what I assume is an...
Hi Jerry, Many thanks for the observation. I have looked through French, Dutch and Hungarian books looking for something like your description. Hope you don't...
Hi Jerry, We found these galls on a Holm oak in the Leicester Uni Botanic Garden in 2004. I have put 3 pics in my "Maggie's Galls" photos. Hope they are of...
Re messages from Tom, Maggie and Jerry re Aceria ilicis - I just thought it would be interesting to see what we have in the database for this species. There...
Hi Jerry, Tom etc., I've been trying to look at Maggie's photos of the gall but my computer is being obstruse and won't let me open it! The erineum could be...
Hi Margaret, In 2004, I emailed the pics of the Holm Oak galls to John Smeathers and he said that they could be Aceria ilicis but to keep the specimens for him...
Hi Maggie, I am glad John Smeathers is back in the fold and willing to ID mites for us. It's probably best to send specimens straight away when fresh, although...
Maggie, again, These look very like Aceria ilicis erinea. I understood from the description that the new galls were more of a pimple above and less extensive...
... description ... below. But ... Thanks everyone for all the feedback. Margaret is exactly right about the galls I have seen: discrete, dorsal surface of...
Hello All This picture http://flickr.com/photos/sxbrc_charles/2259655691/ was sent to the Sussex Wildlife Trust - which I assume is caused by a fungus. Does...
... about ... conspicuously ... is ... have a ... Another update: I have found galls very much closer to Maggie's pictures at two new locations: just N of...
This is fasciation, which could have several causes (genetic, physiological) and is probably not due to galling by an animal or fungus. So, it is rather...
I enclose a link to a set of scans of several leaves from two trees, the one in Kidwell Park (SU 885 812), and one by Maidenhead Bridge (SU 900 813). I have...
Hi Jerry, I've had a look at your pics - they are a bit dark [have you tried brightening them slightly in Photoshop Elements?]. The only leaves that seem to...
Thanks Maggie for your cogent points. 1. I will fiddle with the pictures in Photoshop and re-post better versions. I wanted to get as many of the leaves I'd...
The National Biodiversity Network (NBN) Trust is planning to develop and deliver a series of training events for the biological recording community over the...
The Annual Exhibition meeting of the Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society (LCES) takes place on SATURDAY 1st MARCH 2008 from 11.00 am until 4.00 pm -...
I have been volunteering at Haslemere Museum for a few months and my latest project is working with their two gall collections. The Swanton collection was made...
Hi Sarah, It must be interesting to have the opportunity of working with those collections. I can't help you with your records query, but I was interested in...
Hi Sarah and Maggie, How about Sarah giving us a short talk at the workshop on 2 March? Details of working with an old collection, the fun involved and the...
Hello Margaret and all As a recent newcomer to the BPGS I have not had the opportunity to read Keith's article. Are back issues or reprints of the article...
Hi Margaret Unfortunately I won't be at the workshop - and I only did my first 'stint' with the collection last week! I will be far more 'knowledgable' next...
Hi Scotty, I have a spare copy of Cecidology, Vol.21, N°1 that you can have, if you let me have an address to send it to. regards, Maggie ... to read Keith's...
