Please could someone help with this request? Many thanks Janet> Could you confirm my tentative idents from Redfern & Shirley please? > The one on Salix is a...
... of apple galls. ... had a walk around New Haw and the Wey Canal today and many oaks were heavily infected. ... In Lothingland on the North Suffolk/ Norfolk...
... please? > The one on Salix is a new one of the same gall I sent pictures of on > 14 March; the tree is Salix caprea not S petanrda, and these are this >...
Hello everyone, Earlier this week I found leaves of Grey Alder with extensive patches of white hairs on the underside between the veins. Picture at : ...
All galls fluctuate in numbers from year to year so this is what we should expect. There will be lots of reasons: parasitoids, local weather, synchronisation...
Probably not - depends on whether an organism has caused it. Difficult to prove. Probably most fasciations are due to genetic or physioogical reasons (i.e. ...
Probably it is the same species as on the native alder (we must revise the host plants in the keys). Can't be absolutely sure until someone looks at the mites....
The numbers of Oak apples is a result of the weaher/local conditions at the time the wingless female is climbing up the tree to lay in late winter. Cold winds...
The image at http://uk.ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/british_galls/photos/view/23a3?b=3 is of a wasp like insect that emerged from a Bedegaur gall that was...
Hi Alan, Nice pic! The insect is neither the causer or an inquiline. It is a female Orthopelma mediator ichneumon internal parasitoid of D. rosae. Ask Robin...
Many thanks, Jojanneke and Maggie. That was great. I'm much obliged to you. And Maggie, thanks for the offer of Bedeguar key help but, I'm afraid my hand has a...
Hi Alan, Do you have a specimen of the other emergent that I could perhaps key out for you?? If not, send your pic [whatever the quality of the image] and...
Maggie, you are a glutton for punishment! :-) Two images of the other emergent. http://uk.ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/british_galls/photos/view/23a3?b=4 shows...
Hi Alan again, Thanks for your pics:- well this just goes to show that you can't reliably i/d insects from pics, unless they are of a very distinctive...
I am aware of the Gall on Taraxacum leaves but have found a Puccinia type fungus on the underside where the orange spores capsules are, I do have Ellis and...
I have added a photo in "Colin's Galls" of some green pimples on the upperside of Populus tremula leaves. I should have looked underneath but wondered what...
Hi Colin, The rusts on Taraxacum are 1. Puccinia dioicae - pycnia and aecia only. 2. P. variabilis - all stages - uredospores with 2 equatorial pores 3. P....
I found a gall today (23rd June, 2008) on elm which I keyed out to Kaltenbachiella pallida. At SW453 Madron, near Penzance, west Cornwall. In Redfern et el...
Last week whilst on the north Cornish Coast near Tintagel I found one Anthyllis vulneraria (Kidney Vetch) plant with thickened leaves. There is no mention of...
Ellis and Ellis states two. Uromyces anthyllidis and Cercospora radiata. E mail me privately I will give you my address. I can have a look in more details at...
This is most certainly Aceria genista found in Norfolk on the same batch of Brooms that came from one Plant nursery planted by Norfolk County Council in the...
Hi Jan, It looks like fasciation to me. 'bye for now, Maggie ... From: Janet Boyd To: British Plant Gall group Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 6:33 PM Subject:...
Hi everyone, Edward has resent me the pictures which didn't work before (together with a few more, I think) - someone asked to see them again - I hope these...
