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Hi Derek, I only have gall records for this species in VCs 1,2,17 and 36 so I'm very pleased to have your record for VC64. Maybe the beetle people would have...
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Keith
keithpalmer17
Feb 11, 2013 6:32 pm
Janet, Can I just throw in my two-pennyworth ! I have three locations for this gall, all on Ulex minor (Dwarf Gorse). One is from v.c.17 (Surrey) Chobham...
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Janet Boyd
janetboyd2005
Feb 11, 2013 7:06 pm
Brilliant - thanks very much, Keith. Any more records out there ........ anybody?! Janet To: british_galls@... From: keith@... ...
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lincsbeetles
Feb 11, 2013 10:16 pm
There is a single old (= 1942) record from VC54 - I have nothing from VC53. Charlie VC53 & VC54 recorder for beetles...
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Scotty Dodd
jaapiella
Feb 11, 2013 10:24 pm
Janet The chap to ask would be weevil guru Mike Morris - he is on the yahoo beetle forum You should have my Chobham 2006 record? Regards Scotty ...
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Maggie
maggiefrankum
Feb 14, 2013 11:49 am
Hello everyone, The BPGS Calendar details have yet to be updated for 2013, so here is an urgent reminder that the BPGS Invertebrates Workshop is on Sunday 3rd...
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Margaret Redfern
taxomyia
Feb 14, 2013 3:06 pm
Thanks, Maggie. I am coming to the day, with Tom, and will pay on the day. Hope you get lots of takers and I'm glad Robin's book has arrived - in the nick of...
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uc g
garlanduna
Feb 16, 2013 9:20 am
Hi there I have just noted that the BPGS w/ shop on 3 march clashes wih an FSC course I am on. BIofellows MEsofauna at JUniper HIll! It ends on that day. So...
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uc g
garlanduna
Feb 16, 2013 9:23 am
Hi there Unfortunately I have just noted t BPGS w/ shp clashes with the last day of FSC/ Biof Sent from my iPhone ... Hi there Unfortunately I have just noted...
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uc g
garlanduna
Feb 16, 2013 9:25 am
Hi Just noted this workshop clashes with my last day on a Mesofauns course at JUniper Hill. So I will be UNABLE to make it. Will let RObin know too. Apologies...
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Maggie
maggiefrankum
Feb 16, 2013 2:36 pm
Hello Una, Sorry that we won't meet this time - enjoy your FSC course at Juniper Hall - a great venue - many good memories! 'bye for now, Maggie...
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uc g
garlanduna
Feb 17, 2013 9:23 pm
hi thereI am having Trouble contacTing Robin williams about not being able to make it to the 3 March workshop in Leicester.I luckily over the past few years...
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Peter Shirley
petershirley125
Feb 18, 2013 9:31 am
Una, this is his current email: robin.chalcid@... From: uc g Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2013 9:23 PM To: british_galls@... Subject: RE:...
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eristalinus
Mar 4, 2013 8:10 pm
Can anyone tell me the distribution and status of this mite, please? I found an old Scots Pine today with many galls filled with hundreds of mites at Balconie...
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Margaret Redfern
taxomyia
Mar 5, 2013 8:35 am
We must be cautious about the ID of this gall as the identity of the causal mite hasn't been checked as far as I know. A difficult job as we have so few...
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Murdo Macdonald
eristalinus
Mar 5, 2013 8:46 am
Thanks, Margaret. Â I have specimens of the galls - is there anyone who would be interested in seeing them? Â Stewart Taylor has found similar galls at a...
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Margaret Redfern
taxomyia
Mar 5, 2013 9:05 am
This problem applies to most eriophyoid galls, not just this one, and they have traditionally been identified from the gall only. The only expert taxonomist I...
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Murdo Macdonald
eristalinus
Mar 5, 2013 9:15 am
Understood, Margaret. Â Thanks. M. Â Download the HBRG Ant Atlas at www.hbrg.org.uk/Atlases.html. ________________________________ From: Margaret Redfern...
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Mark Jackson
tasslegall
Mar 9, 2013 9:18 am
Hi there Cecidologists.........i was wondering if you could look at the two photos i have of Persicaria hydropiper (attached) that appear to have swollen...
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Malcolm Storey
bioimages2000
Mar 9, 2013 11:04 am
Hi Mark, These smuts are quite exacting in their hosts, so it's safe to use that for identification (unless of course you're trying to expand the bounds of our...
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Janet Boyd
janetboyd2005
Mar 10, 2013 4:05 pm
Could anyone comment on the message below? Many thanks, Janet From: c.flynnkeysike@... To: janetboyd_entomologist@... Subject: Galls on...
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Margaret Redfern
taxomyia
Mar 12, 2013 10:46 am
I would suspect that these are *Exobasidium* galls but to confirm the spores probably need to be checked. We need a fungal expert to comment - Brian Spooner? ...
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stoneman004
Mar 15, 2013 9:20 am
Hello ,my first post I was surprised last week (4th March) to find a gall wasp crawling on the landing window sill.It is one of the larger species,5mm body...
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Margaret Redfern
taxomyia
Mar 15, 2013 11:46 am
Several *Andricus* species emerge early in late winter/early spring, from their woody galls that have overwintered. These will be the asexual females so you...
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Graham Stone
whistlingthorn
Mar 15, 2013 3:30 pm
Hi Tony, I reckon Andricus quercuscalicis is your best bet. The asexuals of the other host alternators usually emerge later in my experience. Other...
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anthony wynn
stoneman004
Mar 20, 2013 9:44 pm
Thank you for the information re the asexual female.I will look for the knopper galls on acorns in the summer. I'm familiar with the oak apples and marble...
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quercuscorticis
Mar 24, 2013 2:19 pm
The details of the AGM are now available on the website at http://www.british-galls.org.uk/calendar.htm Peter Shirley has also asked me to say that Amazon...
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Robert Maidstone
maidstonerobert
Mar 24, 2013 4:16 pm
It's that time of the year again and Arum maculatum are putting up their leaves, and....I'm confused! The Arum tuber that only had spots last year has the...
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Maggie
maggiefrankum
Mar 30, 2013 10:45 pm
Hi Robert, Not sure that there is an answer to your query, I certainly don't have one. Is it a gall? Who knows? Is there a proliferation of cells? It would...
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quercuscorticis
Apr 22, 2013 8:54 pm
Details of the field meetings during the AGM weekend are now available on the website at www.british-galls.org.uk/BPGS-AGM-Weekend-Field-Meetings.doc Carl...
