Galls are abnormal growths and can be caused by a variety of different organisms, including insects and mites, and ...

For more than a hundred years, scientists have studied the strange partnership between ants and seeds. In this relationship, ...

Cynipid: A member of the Cynipidae family, commonly known as gall wasps, many of which induce galls on plants. Phylogeny: The study of the evolutionary history and relationships among species.

A comprehensive review of inquiline oak gall wasps provided an updated account of the New World species, including the description of three new taxa and a morphological key to distinguish the ...

Galls are abnormal growths and can be caused by a variety of different organisms, including insects (like aphids, flies, wasps), mites and occasionally nematodes, fungi and bacteria.

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The gall serves to protect the young, developing larva from predators and other species of parasitic wasps. In many cases the gall provides a source of nutritious food for the growing larva.

Routine is a solace to many, but the winter garden is a reminder that change will come, and the gall wasp’s days are numbered.

The wasps that emerge from the wool sower galls will lay eggs in the stems, which will cause indistinct stem galls. In the spring, the wasps that emerge from the stem galls will lay eggs in leaf buds, ...