Oak-galls in Britain by Robin Williams Available at: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/resources/research-curation/projects/chalcidoids/pdf_X/Willia2010.pdf
Oak-galls in Britain by Robin Williams
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#wasps #Hymenoptera #plantgalls
The Plant Gall as Innovation Booster: A Conceptual Framework
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By Ille C. Gebeshuber
From the 2nd International Online Conference on Biomimetics
#Biomimetics #PlantGalls #STEAMeducation #Bioinspiration
Two dead flowerheads of golden samphire, with open-ended projections on the surface of the receptacle.
Galls formed by Myopites eximius/eximia on Golden Samphire. At the top of the shore at Sheerness on the Isle of Sheppey earlier this week. #plantgalls #KentNature @galling.bsky.social
With the 2026 season up & looming lots of exciting things to come #Bryophytes #PlantGalls #Galls #grasses & lots of #entomology & another 50 plants for beginners in 2026 series #beetles #ladybirds #hoverflies by subscribing on you tube you can help keep it going www.youtube.com/@wildliferan...
A new plant gall for me among the fallen leaves in my garden: the Poplar Spiral Gall (Pemphigas spyrothecae) caused by an aphid on Poplar trees. @galling.bsky.social #plantgalls
A swollen gall on the stem of a Creeping Thistle plant.
A female Thistle Gall Fly with very distinctive wing banding and a long ovipositor.
Creeping Thistle (Cirsium arvense) with a distinctive gall. Seen on a sunny evening walk with my wife.
Probably due to this beautiful little lady, the aptly named Thistle Gall Fly (Urophora cardui). #Fly photo from a couple of years ago.
#PlantGalls
#Diptera
#UKWildlife
Not strictly botanical, but I think these are oak artichoke galls, caused by the little wasp Andricus foecundatrix? on Pedunculate Oak, Quercus robur. I've never seen them before but found them several times here in #CoSligo this summer. #PlantGalls @bsbibotany.bsky.social @bitheolaidhe.bsky.social
Some more galls on one of our Oaks: silk button spangle gall (induced by the asexual generation of the Neuroterus numismalis gall wasp) together with the artichoke or hop gall (induced by the asexual generation of the gall wasp Andricus foecundatrix).
@sussexwildlife.bsky.social
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The distinctive gall on Red Valerian caused by the Psyllid Trioza centranthi.
I've been looking for the distinctive gall on Red Valerian caused by the Psyllid Trioza centranthi for years, so pleased to finally find it in my garden.
See: www.naturespot.org/species/trio...
#PlantGalls #Leicester #Psyllids #Bugs #environment
A successful workshop delivered to members of the Brighton University Ecological Society last week! Titled ‘Introduction to the Weird and Wonderful World of Plant Galls’, many attendees left really interested in this often overlooked aspect of #ecology!
#plantgalls #plantecology #nature #wildlife
Thanks for the fantastic response to my first post of Devil's fingers. Here's one of my recent pen and ink illustrations. Another fascination of mine, galls, especially those found on Quercus species
#plantgalls #oakgalls #botanicalillustration #penandink
LESOPS 65 - Cecidomyiinae (Gall midges) Now available to download and enjoy: LESOPS 65 Cecidomyiinae (Gall midges). Ray Morris. November 2024 ISSN 0957–1019. Available at: https://www.naturespot.org/sites/default/files/2024-11/LESOPS65Cecidomyiidae.pdf
LESOPS 65 - Cecidomyiinae (Gall midges)
Now available to download and enjoy: LESOPS 65 Cecidomyiinae (Gall midges). Ray Morris. November 2024 ISSN 0957–1019. Available at: www.naturespot.org/sites/defaul...
#Diptera #Entomology #Insects #Galls #PlantGalls
Ray Morris LRES 17.10.24
British Plant Galls (3rd edition, 2003). Redfern, M. & Shirley, P. Field Studies Council.
LRES Meeting 17.10.2024 - Plant Gall Midges
At our latest meeting, Ray Morris discussed plant galls formed by midges. Learn more: leicestershirerutlandentsoc.blogspot.com/2024/10/lres...
#Diptera #Leicester #Leicestershire #Rutland #plantgalls #Insects #Entomology
