I am adding records to the HBRG database using R2002, and have had problems finding acceptable names in the R2002 dictionaries and NBN Gateway for Andricus...
My partner and I will be visiting the Isle of wight in May and October 2009. Is there a resident Cecidologist on the Island I could contact to send in my...
Hi Colin, I could put you in touch with Dr David Biggs, an experienced cecidologist who lives on the Isle of Wight. I am sure he would be very interested in...
Thanks everyone for the help. It looks as though I will have plenty of sites to visit and record when there. Colin. ________________________________ From:...
I can do some of these.: The only Phylloxera I have on oak is P. glabra; don't know whether there is another species. Don't know why the Andricus names don't...
Many thanks for that help, Margaret. At least you have cracked the E. sorbi problem. I will check with the original determiner on the Phylloxera. The...
Thanks for that information, Janet. It is encouraging, as I hope to upgrade to R6 in the next couple of months, and that should have the latest dictionaries...
Hi Janet, It looks like spinosissimae to me. Don't know what else it could be. Spinosissimae can develop at odd places on R. spinosissima, so that fits the ...
Dear Karsten Another A. aries gall was found yesterday in Cheshire. In Knutsford to be precise. Just the one gall this time on a mature quercus robur, just ...
Thanks for the update and a happy New Year to all. Best wishes Karsten ... Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be...
Hi, I've just received information about a possible A lucidus gall (agamic) found at Strettington near Chichester, West Sussex. I have no other records for...
Hi Janet Not one I know of and I don't think that there are a vast number of recorders in the 2 VCs! I will post your message on the 'Adastra' group which gets...
Hi Sarah, Thanks very much - yes the recorder is Howard Matcham, do you know him? I have not heard from him before. I suggested he contact Peter Shirley if he...
Hi Janet Yes, Howard is the Bryophyte recorder for Sussex and a good naturalist. I have heard from Patrick Roper, who manages the Sussex Rare Species...
Hi and Happy new year to everybody, I have a question to float about Orthopelma mediator on bedeguar galls. It is often stated that O. mediator is the main...
Hi all, It seems as if Cecidophyopsis malpighianus has got to the North Norfolk Coast. I collected some swollen buds and enlarged flower heads in the garden...
Hi Robert, Wikipedia has a picture of Umbellaria which matches your description: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umbellularia The Laurus page is not encouraging...
Hi Malcolm, That's the problem the pictures and descriptions of Umbellaria and Laurus in many books could refer to either. I can tell you the seeds of one are...
... Norfolk Coast. I collected some swollen buds and enlarged flower heads in the garden of a hotel at Blakeney on Sunday 11th January. However i am a bit...
H, Steady on David, we will all be experts if you are not careful! Thanks for the link . I have just realised I have wasted the last two years looking for...
Today in North Suffolk VC25 I found several Alexander (Smyrnium olustrum) leaves containing mines. Could these be of the Gall fly Euleia herclei? Do these...
... olustrum) leaves containing mines. ... Not galls, but the following page may be helpful : http://www.ukflymines.co.uk/Keys/SMYRNIUM.html. There is a...
Hi Note the link has a dot at the end so does not work. Try the leafmine group on yahoo it is quite active. Did the plant have a rust on them?? David ... ...
Hi all, I've put in the Carl Farmer album a photo of a large growth on Rowan made up of smooth round bobbles. Is this Crown Gall (Agrobacterium tumefaciens)?...
