#gallweek2024 — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #gallweek2024, aggregated by home.social.
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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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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!