#gallweek2024 — Public Fediverse posts
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@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
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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
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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
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Found an absolutely tiny gall of Andricus gemmeus this morning (that's a 5p coin for scale). They seem to be a couple of weeks later this year as lots more visible than a few days ago. #GallWeek2024 #PlantGalls
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This week, starting yesterday, is Gall Week on #iNaturalist https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/gall-week-september-2024.
Observations are welcomed from anywhere in the world, although timing favours peak gall season in temperate Northern hemisphere. To add them requires joining the project and then adding them explicitly (a 'traditional' project). Worth having a go if you use iNaturalist and see galls casually.
Here are some of mine from yesterday.
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Update. The galls are nicely dried out now. This winter I'll turn them into ink.
Unfortunately one of the #galls was still occupied. The little wasp perished inside the stack of glass containers. 😬
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Nice fruit. Look almost ripe. I wonder what they taste like. Probably like insects.
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Here’s my first contribution!
This is a “t-distichum-starburst-gall” on our Baldcypress. It is actually an undescribed species! This is the second location I’ve found it in, and the first time at our place. (Edit: I'm not the only observer in Louisiana; I just figured out how to search iNaturalist by observation fields)
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It's Fall Gall Week!
Get out there and look for weird bumps or growths on plants, take some pics, and upload to iNaturalist. Oak trees are always good hosts, and asters seem to be having a big gall year, at least where I live.
There is an iNaturalist project you can join here: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/gall-week-september-2024
You can tag me (@daniel_observer) to help with IDs, or use gallformers.org to find out more info!