Hi everyone, The attached photo does look like the description of Campiglossa argyrocephala as Quentin Groom suggests. The Keys say that it is found in...
Hi Janet, I'm not sure about this - may be a gall midge Rhopalomyia ptarmicae. It needs to be opened to see what type of larvae are inside. If it is a gall...
Hi all  I agree with Margaret the galls need to be examined. The picture does not look like mature galls of  Rhopalomyia ptarmicae but could be early...
Hi Margaret, Re the Achillea gall - I will try to put Kate in contact with David Savage who says he can visit the site - I don't think she has kept any...
Oops - sorry. My last message was intended for Margaret only! Janet _________________________________________________________________ Discover Bird's Eye View...
Hi Jan, Thamks for doing this and for contacting Penny - I'm sure she appreciates it. One good gall to look out for is Aceria fraxinovora clusters on ash,...
It may seem odd coming from me, but could anyone bring me up to date with which VCs or counties Andricus grossulariae has been recorded from so far? Records...
Got to Norfolk 2006 and now well estabilshed in some villages robert ======================================== Message Received: Oct 05 2008, 03:09 PM From:...
Returning from a Fungus Foray this afternoon, I noticed prominent galls on leaves of a non-native Acer planted around the cricket pitch at Clumber Park, Notts....
Hi Jerry, I found Vasates quadripes on Acer saccharinum on 9.9.2007, at our local Knighton Park, Leicester. There are three photos in "Maggie's galls". Are...
Thanks very much Maggie. The pictures are a great help: not only for the galls, but also to check the leaf. Definitely Vasates on Acer saccharinum. I will try...
Thanks very much, Robert. I spoke to Rex Hancey yesterday and he said it had reached the very northern part of Norfolk now and Maggie may have found it near...
I would much appreciate some help with a few recurring species names on a batch of records I am working on from 1998. They don't match with the mapmate...
Hi Jan, 4. Taphrina amentorum is T. alni (Berk. & Br.) Gjaerum on page 223 in British Plant Galls. Don't know what's on the Mapmate checklists. It has been...
I've just put 2 photos in Maggie's Galls:- Rams Horn gall specimens brought to me at end of September, from the Attenborough Arboretum [Uni of Leicester],...
... on a batch of records I am working on from 1998. They don't match with the mapmate checklists and no reference is given so I'm having difficulty tracing...
Dear all I wondered if anyone had digital or paper copies of the Cecidology articles on Neuroterus saliens that they could send to me. N.saliens is popping up...
Jan, As far as I know, Eriophyes laevis is a good name for the gall on alder and it used to be in the genus Phytoptus. Eriophyes calycophthirus is now Acalitus...
Having read about this Gall I have just been to my Patch (Carlton Marshes SWT Reserve) in Suffolk and found a fresh example of A, grosslarie. Hooray. are there...
Hi Scotty, Have you seen Margaret Redfern's article on "A new oak gall wasp in Britain" [from material and information provided by Brian Wurzell, Graham Stone...
Hello Maggie  No I have not and I suspect that this and one other published in Cecidology are the ones I am after. I can dig out exact references if needed....
Hi Colin, The first record of the sexual generation north of London was found in VC 26 at Hundon by Michael Chinery on 18th June 2005 - he recorded it again in...
Working out OS Grid References for records has always been slightly problematical both in terms of the time it takes, the resources required (maps etc.) and...
Hi everybody, here is a little snippet on A. grossulariae not everyone might be aware off. On the continent there is a suggestion that proportions of a local...
