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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

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

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

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

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

I don't want to name names but apparently some of you did not go out and take photographs of galls yesterday. #GallWeek25 #GallWeek2025 #GallWeek #gall #galls #insects #inaturalist #entomology #nature #cynipidae https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/gall-week-september-2025

I don't want to name names but apparently some of you did not go out and take photographs of galls yesterday. #GallWeek25 #GallWeek2025 #GallWeek #gall #galls #insects #inaturalist #entomology #nature #cynipidae https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/gall-week-september-2025

I don't want to name names but apparently some of you did not go out and take photographs of galls yesterday. #GallWeek25 #GallWeek2025 #GallWeek #gall #galls #insects #inaturalist #entomology #nature #cynipidae https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/gall-week-september-2025

I don't want to name names but apparently some of you did not go out and take photographs of galls yesterday. #GallWeek25 #GallWeek2025 #GallWeek #gall #galls #insects #inaturalist #entomology #nature #cynipidae https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/gall-week-september-2025

I don't want to name names but apparently some of you did not go out and take photographs of galls yesterday. #GallWeek25 #GallWeek2025 #GallWeek #gall #galls #insects #inaturalist #entomology #nature #cynipidae https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/gall-week-september-2025

Gall fans, it's almost time for this year's week in the spotlight: September 6-14, 2025. #GallWeek #GallWeek25 #GallWeek2025 #gall #galls #plants #insects #inaturalist #biology https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/gall-week-september-2025

#GallWeek September 2024 comes to an end. I didn't quite make my target of 100 different galls (count is on 96 with 1 or 2 to come) : https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?project_id=gall-week-september-2024&subview=table&user_id=sk53

It was a bit frustrating failing to find galls from locations they were seen earlier in the year, but I also managed to explore a little further afield this year. Helped by free OAP travel.

Highlights were : Alder Tongue, evidence of spread of Dasineura aceris on Silver Maple, Pseudoneuroterus saliens and Euura viminalis #PlantGalls

Gall of Asteromyia carbonifera (Cecidomyiidae) on goldenrod. The gall is made by a fungus, Botryosphaeria dothidea, which creates a hard, internal pocket (stroma) that makes it difficult for parasitoids such as Torymus capite (Chalcidoidea) to find the larvae inside. Female midges collect conidia of this fungal species and store them in special pockets (mycangia) on their ovipositors. #fly #diptera #insects #entomology #macro #fungi #mutualism #gall #galls #GallWeek

@fowp Of course you can. The records are all on iNaturalist (with a view older ones: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?nelat=52.9544763836614&nelng=-1.196930503298974&project_id=plant-galls-of-britain-ireland&subview=map&swlat=52.94015071697601&swlng=-1.2246538156769038), and I think all the photos are licenced CC-BY-SA on there, including Timaspis. I've even got one or two gall records from the Arbour Oak.

About 9 years ago I had a productive session looking for galls in the Hall Gardens with the late Peter Cooke of Coventry & District Natural History Society. Felt gall on Holm Oaks should be obvious. #PlantGalls #GallWeek #GallWeek2024 #Nottingham

Seems an age ago now, but on Monday went looking for Oak Galls along Digby Avenue in Wollaton Park. Harder to find this year, and no Trigonapsis 😞, but quite a few nice Andricus gemmeus.

Highlight was an Alder Tongue on by return route (a gall I've missed out on locally).

#GallWeek RT @fowp

Found a wasp ovipositing into a Callirhytis furva gall on Saturday. Actual ID likely impossible (wasps are hard), but iNaturalist's computer vision guessed Periclistus, a cynipid genus that uses other cynipid galls as homes. But Periclistus is not, I think, a known inquiline of Callirhytis, so likely something else. #gall #galls #GallWeek #GallWeek2024 #wasp #hymenoptera #cynipidae #nature #macro #oak #inaturalist #insect

Photographed over a dozen galls yesterday to kick off Gall Week. Here's one made by the cynipid wasp, Andricus nigricens. Each little lobe has a single wasp larva, and sometime in the fall they drop off onto the ground. #gall #galls #GallWeek #GallWeek2024 #biology #plants #nature #quercus #oak https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/240567699

Here's just one example of the thousands of gallmakers out there: the silk-button spangle gall wasp (Neuroterus numismalis). Observed on September 7th by Jai at Throp Perrow in North Yorkshire, England. #gall #wasp #nature #insect #plant #GallWeek https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/240291184

September 7-15 is GALL WEEK, nature fans. #inaturalist #galls #wasps #insects #mites #aphids #flies #thrips #bacteria #fungi #plants #nature #GallWeek https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/gall-week-september-2024