Hi Sarah, Maybe it is Agrobacterium tumefaciens? I have seen the same thing at High Wycombe in 2006. Jojanneke _______________________________________________ ...
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I've replied to Alan quoting from the bottom of page 245 in the keys. Can anyone add anything else? I can't identify the pine from the photo, but...
This is the growth that Philip Entwistle and others up in Scotland have seen quite often and no-one knows their cause. Probably bacterial? Unlikely to be ...
Hi, Could anyone comment on the attached photos, please? many thanks, Janet ... _________________________________________________________________ Share what...
Hi All Last week I finished going through the Swanton collection. I have now started the task of cataloguing as it transpires that nearly half the drawers have...
To me, this didn't key out to any of the known galls - is it an 'unknown' mite? Data - http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2300/2336517275_434605dba0.jpg Close-up...
With reference to the photos of 'gall' on trees - the one on the Salix is a common flower 'gall' but since no-one has yet found the causer we can't include it...
Many thanks for your input Robert. I did wonder, having spent a long time with the galls and Refern & Shirley, whether a lot of these should be catalogued as...
right this time I think. It matches the photo in Forestry Commission leaflet No 7 'Adelgids attacking Spruce and other conifers' (1968 edition) for Adeles...
Atropa belladonna is not mentioned as a host in Redforn & Shirley, but Swanton has this data - http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3071/2337081639_ebc10ae4ea.jpg...
Data - http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3100/2337172955_615ca07253.jpg Galls - http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2074/2338009590_2fd1699b0d.jpg PS If anyone thinks...
Hi Sarah! Good to see the Swanton images. They show how well the specimens have been preserved and it should still be possible to identify most of them. I...
Hi Sarah, Try Adelges laricis for this one and the other one. both are too round for either viridis or abietis and the needle remains are wrong! Robert ...
Have been following correspondence on Swanton gall collection with interest. Would be very interested to know if there are specimens identified as "Euura...