Typical. my first day as a gall identification forum on a gardening web site and they tell me of a fuschia Gall mite. There is nothing in the keys for fuschia...
Hi Colin, I fed in "fuchsia gall mite" into Google and it came up with a file from:- http://www.defra.gov.uk/planth/pestnote/fuchsia.pdf including a pic Hope...
Hi Colin, It most likely isn't in the Keys [I assume you mean AIDGAP British Plant Galls, Redfern, Shirley & Bloxham] because the DEFRA info suggests that it...
Found in Brussels on Crataegus monogyna, August 2nd. Could somebody confirm? Thanks, Jean _________________________________________________________________ ...
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Yep, I think you are right! Greetings, Jojanneke ___________________________ Ing. Jojanneke Bijkerk LGM Ruiterakker 48 9407 BB Assen the Netherlands 0031...
Yes, Maggie is correct; it is a galler and is recently recorded in the UK - and will be in the revised keys that we are working on. The Defra leaflet tells you...
Hi can anyone shed any light on the Forsythia Gall? they are small "fists" of fingers on the twigs of Forsythia but dont seem to have larvae. I guess they are...
Hi Colin I've seen these myself for the first time this year and read up in 'British Plant Galls' that the cause of these in unknown! It was thought to be...
Forsythia is particularly prone to strange growths and these can be a variety of shapes - see p2 and Fig. 2 in the AIDGAP keys. Probably most are caused by ...
Yes they are the Galls I have found. More rounded and not fist like, like mine, But certainly the same Gall.# Colin. East Point Photography. Landscape and...
Hello everyone, In Cecidology Vol 24, No.1. P 10-11, I mentioned that the catkin form of this gall had been found at the Attenborough Arboretum, Knighton,...
Dear Maggie and all, Excellent to hear about inhabitants of the catkin form of this gall. They are very patchily distributed in my experience - and some trees ...
Hi Graham, Thanks for the information - this is intriguing! I haven't heard of Pammene moths before, let alone what their caterpillars do to gall formers!...
Hi there, the attached paper talks a bit about Pammene, which should be updated. They seem to be more common than we thought at the time and I for one are not...
Hi Karsten, Thankyou for the interesting paper & information. I will have to ask my local microlep experts whether Pammene sp. is found here in VC55. Re: the...
Messages from the VC55Moths group suggest the following species of Pammene moth occur in VC55:- Comment 1: "according to Emmet's "A Field Guide to the Smaller...
I found what looks like a very large gall (irregular shape, about 15cm across, 6 high) on the floor of a mixed wood. If I could I'd put a pic up here but don't...
Thanks Malcolm, I was thrown by the absence of any smell that normally goes with fungus, and the woody round area with an attachment point. Well you learn...
Just a quick note to suggest looking out for fruits of Cherry Plum <i>Prunus cerasifera</i> galled by <i>Taphrina pruni</i>. This morning I checked for this...
I went prospecting for pocket plums on the Cherry Plum Prunus cerasifera in the garden this morning, and found a good number already well developed. As...
- I Plan to do Advanced Studies on using Galls for Medicinal purpose. - Does anyone has any article or Research papers on Galls being used for Medicinal...
I found these galls <http://www.flickr.com/photos/mausboam/3516302188/> on a Pedunculate Oak in Nottingham yesterday. To me they look very like Andricus aries....
That's aries for sure - well spotted. Graham Stone ... -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number...
