- 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....
This might be old news to some members of the group, but there is a PDF available of Houard (1908) "Les zoocécidies des plantes d'Europe et du bassin de la...
Cecidology is rarley mentioned within past and current Suffolk Naturalists but in the Transactions of the Suffolk Naturalists Society (19580 reports on a new...
Hi all, Just joined BPGS & the forum, so hello from me. Also, I found a small gall like Trioza remota on horse-chestnut, though I believe it's usually on oak....
Hi Colin, If you are a paid up member of BPGS, by now you should have received your Spring 2009 copy of "Cecidology" and you will know that Michael is indeed...
Hi Dave, A warm welcome to BPGS. In the FSC AIDGAP "British Plant Galls - identification of galls on plants and fungi" by Margaret Redfern, Peter Shirley &...
Hi Maggie, Ta for your reply, but it isn't A.hippocastani - each gall is a tiny leaf-blade dimple just like T. remota, but on a different host. I'm definitely...
Hi there, picture no.2 looks clearest in that the gall is attached - or has taken over - the development of a leave. Also picture 1, and the lack of a...
... Hi Jan, I'm only guessing, never having seen it, but would it be the sexual generation gall caused by the cynipid wasp Trigonaspis megaptera? Perhaps...
... I should have waited! Thanks Karsten for your identification of the galls in Richard's photos and the clues to look out for. Experience is definitely...
