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SATURDAY 14th October 2006. SPANGLES, KNOPPERS & MARBLES - a talk for beginners joint meeting of Loughborough Naturalists' Club & BPGS, Loughborough,...
Hello all I recently found what would appear to be 2 tiny galls on the leaves of Bog Myrtle (Myrica gale). The 'gall'is <2mm in length and elliptical. It is...
Hello Scotty, Re the second part of your message re gall records for Surrey, I am the records data manager for the BPGS and I have just checked the database...
Hello Janet Thanks for the help. I will of course send you my records and any others that I come across. I will be working closely with one of your members,...
Hello Scotty, About your possible gall on Myrica gale…there is nothing about it in Docters van Leeuwen also, but I checked Buhr: Nr. 4379: „Rand der...
Hello Jojanneke Thank you for your information, I will take a picture as soon as possible (through a microscope). Unfortunately I only have English reference...
Hello all I have now uploaded 3 pictures of what I believe to be a gall on Myrica gale (Bog Myrtle). The pictures clearly depict two raised, eliptical...
Dear Scotty, Thank you for your offer of records - I am very keen to build up the database so that the society can help people with projects like yours. Indeed...
Dear Scotty, I have a vague recollection of Brian Gale pointing out this gall to me at a field meeting - he is very knowledgable on mites (and has a very...
Dear all, I thought you might be interested in an observation of Andricus grossulariae (sexual generation) on Quercus castaneifolia (native to northern Iran...
... avail. I will try some other areas within the reserve throughout the week. S ... me at a ... appropriate ... of a ... Scotty, ... about it in ... mit...
Hi Scotty, My German is absolutely lousy, but I can give it a try. Translation Buhr: Nr. 4379: „Border of the location of infection of the ± bend leaves...
Hello Jojanneke Thank you very much for the translation, your grasp of the German language far outstrips mine! Buhr refers to a tight downward roll of the leaf...
Hello Scotty, I do not have any pictures and I wonder if they are available anywhere on the internet. On some websites was information about gall causing mites...
Hello Jojanneke Thank you very much for your efforts in researching web-links. Ecoport (the first link) 'looks' the most promising. The specimen I have is...
Hello Janet Any news from Brian Gale yet? I'm itching to find out more about this 'gall'. Unfortunately Brian Spooner is away for a couple of weeks so I...
Dear Scotty, I have had a reply from Brian who is in the process of joining the forum so you will be able to discuss this with him directly. Here is what he...
Hi Scotty, Looks my message did get through after all - I must have deleted it without looking. I remember now the species in question was Phyllocoptes myricae...
Hi Scotty, I have replied to this group about Brian Gale already but it doesn't seem to have appeared yet - odd! This message probably won't arrive until after...
Hi; At last I have managed to join The Forum and read through the welter of messages on this possible gall! Congratulations to all concerned in establishing...
Hello Brian Thank you for your input which will hopefully lead to the solution of this mystery 'gall'. I have recently heard from Brian Spooner, who has...
Hello there My girlfriend, a Wildlife Trust reserves officer, recently came home with a gall on Lythrum salicaria (Purple-loosestrife) which I identified as...
Now this is exiting, for Dutch people at least. Last Sunday 19th of November 2006 I found many specimen of Ram's Horn Gall (Andricus aries) in the Thijssepark...
Hello Jojanneke RE: They did not seem to be parasitized, since they where slender and had long 'horns' (?). There is only one way to find out if the...
Hi Scotty, You've been busy! This gall on Purple loosestrife is interesting. I have two clumps of P.L. in my garden and never thought to check it out for...
Dear all, as some of you know I am VERY interested in the spread of alien cynipids on oak, and I read the message of JoJanneke with interest. Last spring I was...
Thanks Maggie I intend to use the oak galls or bedeguar key to at least get to family (had to relinquish my grip on the microscope so that my partner could...
Hello Karsten I will send you my records, and any others that I unearth, during the course of my research for Surrey's galls. I have certainly recorded all...
Hello again Maggie I have uploaded a couple of Rachels Bayeriola pics. As you can see the gall is rather striking in colour and little or no flowering spike is...
