#galls — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #galls, aggregated by home.social.
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Nature fans: the spring Gall Week starts May 2nd! URL has details on how to participate on iNaturalist, plus links to an excellent podcast featuring Adam Kranz. #nature #biology #inaturalist #cynipidae #galls #insects #mites #wasps https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/257180/journal/129848
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Gouty Oak Gall Wasp (Callirhytis quercuspunctata) Galls
#Galls #Wasps #Hymenoptera #ArtWithOpenSource #Darktable #CCBYSA #Insects #Animals #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photo #Photography
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Gouty Oak Gall Wasp (Callirhytis quercuspunctata) Galls
#Galls #Wasps #Hymenoptera #ArtWithOpenSource #Darktable #CCBYSA #Insects #Animals #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photo #Photography
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Gouty Oak Gall Wasp (Callirhytis quercuspunctata) Galls
#Galls #Wasps #Hymenoptera #ArtWithOpenSource #Darktable #CCBYSA #Insects #Animals #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photo #Photography
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Gouty Oak Gall Wasp (Callirhytis quercuspunctata) Galls
#Galls #Wasps #Hymenoptera #ArtWithOpenSource #Darktable #CCBYSA #Insects #Animals #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photo #Photography
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Well. Time flies.. Anyway. Over a year later the #oak #galls dried nicely so the little Hobbit and I started the #ink making process.
First the ingredients. We're using a simple recipe and I base it on using 10 grams of galls.
1 - 4 grams of Iron(II) sulfate
2 - 4 grams of Gum arabic
3 - 30ml of water (from our well, boiled, no chemicals)
4 - 10grams of oak gall -
Well. Time flies.. Anyway. Over a year later the #oak #galls dried nicely so the little Hobbit and I started the #ink making process.
First the ingredients. We're using a simple recipe and I base it on using 10 grams of galls.
1 - 4 grams of Iron(II) sulfate
2 - 4 grams of Gum arabic
3 - 30ml of water (from our well, boiled, no chemicals)
4 - 10grams of oak gall -
Harmandiola sp. Gall on European Aspen (Populus tremula)
#Gall #Populus #ArtWithOpenSource #Darktable #Aspen #CCBYSA #Flies #Diptera #Galls #Plant #Plants #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photo #Photography
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Harmandiola sp. Gall on European Aspen (Populus tremula)
#Gall #Populus #ArtWithOpenSource #Darktable #Aspen #CCBYSA #Flies #Diptera #Galls #Plant #Plants #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photo #Photography
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These colorful lesions were originally thought to be just fungal infections (Botryosphaeria dothidea) but were eventually found to harbor midge larvae (Asteromyia carbonifera) that farm the fungi for food and use the hardened hyphae to prevent (sometimes) parasitic wasps from ovipositing into the gall. In turn, emerging female flies dutifully transmit spores to new plants each generation. #goldenrod #fly #diptera #fungus #fungi #mutualism #gall #galls #solidago #cecidomyiidae #insects #entomology
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These colorful lesions were originally thought to be just fungal infections (Botryosphaeria dothidea) but were eventually found to harbor midge larvae (Asteromyia carbonifera) that farm the fungi for food and use the hardened hyphae to prevent (sometimes) parasitic wasps from ovipositing into the gall. In turn, emerging female flies dutifully transmit spores to new plants each generation. #goldenrod #fly #diptera #fungus #fungi #mutualism #gall #galls #solidago #cecidomyiidae #insects #entomology
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Here are the stats for Gall Week 2025: 13,300 observations, 1004 species, and 886 participants. These numbers will climb as people upload their pics and manually add them to the project. #GallWeek2025 #gall #galls #inaturalist #insects #mites #nature https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/gall-week-september-2025
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Here are the stats for Gall Week 2025: 13,300 observations, 1004 species, and 886 participants. These numbers will climb as people upload their pics and manually add them to the project. #GallWeek2025 #gall #galls #inaturalist #insects #mites #nature https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/gall-week-september-2025
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One thing you learn very quickly when photographing oak galls is that bald-faced hornets are huge gall fans, too. #GallWeek2025 #gall #galls #cynipidae #oaks #nectar #wasps #insects #biology #hymentopera #hornets
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One thing you learn very quickly when photographing oak galls is that bald-faced hornets are huge gall fans, too. #GallWeek2025 #gall #galls #cynipidae #oaks #nectar #wasps #insects #biology #hymentopera #hornets
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14/09/2025 - A sunny day out. Slow stroll looking at trees and bugs. Aberdeenshire was looking lovely today in the September sunshine. Two new things I've not come across before, both on the same oak tree, oak artichoke galls and a little larch ladybird.
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14/09/2025 - A sunny day out. Slow stroll looking at trees and bugs. Aberdeenshire was looking lovely today in the September sunshine. Two new things I've not come across before, both on the same oak tree, oak artichoke galls and a little larch ladybird.
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Found some banded bullet galls (Kokkocynips imbricariae) yesterday. I also found a dollar near the tree. It was a good day. Media, PA, USA. #GallWeek2025 #gall #galls #wasps #cynipidae #insects #entomology #oaks #quercus
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Found some banded bullet galls (Kokkocynips imbricariae) yesterday. I also found a dollar near the tree. It was a good day. Media, PA, USA. #GallWeek2025 #gall #galls #wasps #cynipidae #insects #entomology #oaks #quercus
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Excellent podcast on galls featuring Adam Kranz. #GallWeek2025 #gall #galls #insects #mites #biology https://naturesarchive.com/2023/04/10/spring-galls/
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Excellent podcast on galls featuring Adam Kranz. #GallWeek2025 #gall #galls #insects #mites #biology https://naturesarchive.com/2023/04/10/spring-galls/
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If you'd like to learn more about the cherry gall azure here's the 2005 paper by Pavulaan and Wright that describes it. #lepidoptera #galls #prunus #butterflies #lycaenidae #entomology #insects https://leplog.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/pavulaan-wright-2005-c-serotina.pdf
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If you'd like to learn more about the cherry gall azure here's the 2005 paper by Pavulaan and Wright that describes it. #lepidoptera #galls #prunus #butterflies #lycaenidae #entomology #insects https://leplog.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/pavulaan-wright-2005-c-serotina.pdf
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If you have a black cherry loaded with spindle-shaped leaf galls, keep your eyes peeled for the omnivorous caterpillar that feeds on them, the cherry gall azure (Celastrina serotina). #lepidoptera #galls #prunus #butterflies #lycaenidae #entomology #insects https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/82888035
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If you have a black cherry loaded with spindle-shaped leaf galls, keep your eyes peeled for the omnivorous caterpillar that feeds on them, the cherry gall azure (Celastrina serotina). #lepidoptera #galls #prunus #butterflies #lycaenidae #entomology #insects https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/82888035
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Black cherry leaf gall (Eriophyes cerasicrumena) that has split open and released the vermiform mites that have spent the summer inside. #GallWeek2025 #gall #galls #mites #cherry #prunus #biology #eriophyidae #macrophotography
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Black cherry leaf gall (Eriophyes cerasicrumena) that has split open and released the vermiform mites that have spent the summer inside. #GallWeek2025 #gall #galls #mites #cherry #prunus #biology #eriophyidae #macrophotography
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These oak button galls (Neuroterus umbilicatus) give a nice sense of how small cynipid wasps are. I've seen photographs that are so loaded them that you can barely see the leaf surface. #GallWeek2025 #gall #galls #cynipidae #oaks #quercus #entomology #nature #wasps
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These oak button galls (Neuroterus umbilicatus) give a nice sense of how small cynipid wasps are. I've seen photographs that are so loaded them that you can barely see the leaf surface. #GallWeek2025 #gall #galls #cynipidae #oaks #quercus #entomology #nature #wasps
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Jewel oak gall (Acraspis quercushirta), living up to its name. Little Crum Creek Park, Swarthmore, PA, USA. #GallWeek2025 #gall #galls #cynipidae #oaks #quercus #entomology #nature #wasp
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Jewel oak gall (Acraspis quercushirta), living up to its name. Little Crum Creek Park, Swarthmore, PA, USA. #GallWeek2025 #gall #galls #cynipidae #oaks #quercus #entomology #nature #wasp
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Yesterday's fun gall find was Phylloteras sigma (Cynipidae), a rarely-photographed beauty with no common name. iNaturalist observations are mainly in PA, DE, MD, VA, and DC but BugGuide lists NY, too. Reported on both Quercus alba and Q. muehlenbergii. Little Crum Creek Park, Swarthmore, PA. #GallWeek2025 #gall #galls #cynipidae #oaks #quercus #entomology #nature #gallformers
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Yesterday's fun gall find was Phylloteras sigma (Cynipidae), a rarely-photographed beauty with no common name. iNaturalist observations are mainly in PA, DE, MD, VA, and DC but BugGuide lists NY, too. Reported on both Quercus alba and Q. muehlenbergii. Little Crum Creek Park, Swarthmore, PA. #GallWeek2025 #gall #galls #cynipidae #oaks #quercus #entomology #nature #gallformers
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took the fancy camera to high park this morning!
i was mostly looking for galls for #GallWeek but i also saw plenty of sand wasps enjoying the sun, and a coyote! i was walking away from it but it crossed the street to avoid me anyway and a car that was going too fast had to stop for it 🙄
(there are Plans to gradually #BanCars in High Park, people are big mad)
#galls #GallWeek2025 #bugstodon #insects #wasps #coyote #coyotes #Hymenoptera #Crabronidae #Bembicini
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took the fancy camera to high park this morning!
i was mostly looking for galls for #GallWeek but i also saw plenty of sand wasps enjoying the sun, and a coyote! i was walking away from it but it crossed the street to avoid me anyway and a car that was going too fast had to stop for it 🙄
(there are Plans to gradually #BanCars in High Park, people are big mad)
#galls #GallWeek2025 #bugstodon #insects #wasps #coyote #coyotes #Hymenoptera #Crabronidae #Bembicini
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Stumbled onto this gem while admiring observations in iNaturalist's Gall Week 2025 project. The two-tailed gumtree gall (Apiomorpha duplex) is, per "Brisbane Insects and Spiders" blog, the world's largest gall. Like many galls made by scale insects in the Eriococcidae, the species makes sexually-dimorphic galls. This gall is induced by a female; male galls are knobs on leaves and don't seem to be photographed much. #GallWeek2025 #eucalyptus #gall #galls #homoptera #insect #gumtree #entomology #inaturalist #australia
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Stumbled onto this gem while admiring observations in iNaturalist's Gall Week 2025 project. The two-tailed gumtree gall (Apiomorpha duplex) is, per "Brisbane Insects and Spiders" blog, the world's largest gall. Like many galls made by scale insects in the Eriococcidae, the species makes sexually-dimorphic galls. This gall is induced by a female; male galls are knobs on leaves and don't seem to be photographed much. #GallWeek2025 #eucalyptus #gall #galls #homoptera #insect #gumtree #entomology #inaturalist #australia
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@colinpurrington Wow, they are amazing! Found some nice galls here too :) #GallWeek2025 #galls #gall
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@colinpurrington Wow, they are amazing! Found some nice galls here too :) #GallWeek2025 #galls #gall
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Finally, here's another new-to-me gall that I've very, very tentatively ID'd as something made by Ophiomyia tiliae, a fly in the Agromyzidae. If I get a correction on iNaturalist I'll update this post. Possibly not even a gall! 5/5 #GallWeek2025 #gall #galls #inaturalist #mites #flies #diptera #tilia #basswood
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Finally, here's another new-to-me gall that I've very, very tentatively ID'd as something made by Ophiomyia tiliae, a fly in the Agromyzidae. If I get a correction on iNaturalist I'll update this post. Possibly not even a gall! 5/5 #GallWeek2025 #gall #galls #inaturalist #mites #flies #diptera #tilia #basswood
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This gall is new to me so I hope I have identified it correctly. I think its a tupelo leaf edge gall (Aceria dina). If you squint you can see a mite walking on the upper right side of the upper fold, although I'm not sure if it is the eriophyid mite that makes the gall. 4/5 #GallWeek2025 #gall #galls #inaturalist #mites #arachnids #tupelo
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This gall is new to me so I hope I have identified it correctly. I think its a tupelo leaf edge gall (Aceria dina). If you squint you can see a mite walking on the upper right side of the upper fold, although I'm not sure if it is the eriophyid mite that makes the gall. 4/5 #GallWeek2025 #gall #galls #inaturalist #mites #arachnids #tupelo
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This gall is new to me so I hope I have identified it correctly. I think its a tupelo leaf edge gall (Aceria dina). If you squint you can see a mite walking on the upper right side of the upper fold, although I'm not sure if it is the eriophyid mite that makes the gall. 4/5 #GallWeek2025 #gall #galls #inaturalist #mites #arachnids #tupelo
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This gall is new to me so I hope I have identified it correctly. I think its a tupelo leaf edge gall (Aceria dina). If you squint you can see a mite walking on the upper right side of the upper fold, although I'm not sure if it is the eriophyid mite that makes the gall. 4/5 #GallWeek2025 #gall #galls #inaturalist #mites #arachnids #tupelo
