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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...
My spring forays into Norfolk have produced scattered records of Biorhiza pallida this year. some trees nearby to affected trees are devoid. also the elm gall...
At Strumpshaw RSPB Reserve some Stinging Nettles leaves were covered with lots if small red pimples on the leaf upper surface. I have a photo. There is no...
I found many examples of the following gall on catkins of an evergreen oak in the main campus of Nottingham University. I have not identified the oak with...
Hi Jerry, Lovely pics. It certainly looks like the sexual generation galls of A, grossulariae but I'll wait for someone more knowledgeable to i/d them. Are...
Dear Jerry, These galls are certainly sexual Andricus grossulariae, and it would be very interesting to rear out gall makers and parasitoids. If you would...
Hi, Turkey oaks (Quercus cerris) as far as I have seen do not have mature leaves in spring when the flowers are out. So I would agree with Jerry, this is a...
Well it gets better. I went out this afternoon to a location with several Turkey Oaks and a single Lucombe Oak, I drew a blank on the first Q. cerris and on...
Dear Jerry, where are you based, if you don't mind me asking, you seem to have access to a wide range of oak species. A few years back we found A. grossulariae...
Hi there all! The sexual generation of grossulariae seems to do well on suber (the main host in the Iberian peninsula and NW Africa, where there is no native...
... access to a wide range of oak species. ... cerris oak species at the Hilliers arboretum near Southampton. They are certainly not specific to Q. cerris if...
Hi Jerry, ... are present at ... in the Parks at Oxford. Silwood Park has an oaks collection which has been built up comparatively recently for research...
... I'd be willing to bet that Q. ilex, Q. cerris and Q. x crenata have been present on the estate for over 100 years. This was the essence of my point....
