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#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

@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

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

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.

#PlantGalls #GallWeek2024

Found an interesting looking Oak Gall today, possibly Dyer's Gall Andricus infectorius. It is the elongated sphere with bumpy bits. The gall alongside is Ram's-horn Gall.

First found in Britain in 2012, but not recognised until later. Can be easily confused with Marble Gall.

#PlantGalls #VC56 #Andricus #Cynipidae