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Galls and spittles
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Galls and spittles
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A galling mite!
Eriophyes tiliae galls It must be galling to be covered in these! Sorry for the schoolboy pun but they do not look very attractive do they? These so-called nail galls are caused by a very tiny mite in the Family Eriophyidae. Eriophyid mites are only about 0.2 mm long and up to 200 of them can be living and feeding in one of these galls. They are so small that they can feed on a single…
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[PHOTOS TAKEN: APRIL 15TH, 2026 | Image IDs: Two photos of a white, orange, and pink wool sower wasp gall, a cottonball or pom pom like gall coming off of the side of a tree /End IDs.]
The gall of Callirhytis seminator, the wool sower gall wasp!
Btw I’m making presentation about galls at the moment, and I have no idea why but so many articles/websites that I take infrormations from are soo goofy???
What were those people on? And why almost all of them are like this?
Are all people interested in galls this goofy?
[PHOTOS TAKEN: APRIL 13TH, 2026 | Image IDs: two photos showing the cross section of an "oak apple" gall, with a green outside and fibrous white inside, the core at the center being hard and yellow. The last two show the core cut open to expose the beige larva inside /End IDs.]
Disclaimer!: I would not recommend doing this to oak apples, as neither the oak apple galls nor the wasps that produce them are dangerous to the oak tree, and doing this to an oak apple like this will kill the wasp inside. The only reason why I myself cut this gall open is because 1. The gall had already fallen off of the tree, so it wasn't going to be getting any more nutrients from it, and 2. I wasn't actually initially certain what it was (though I did know it was a gall).
This is a kind of oak apple! It's a gall produced by gall wasps of the family Cynipidae, the larva injects chemicals into a leaf of an oak tree that create this round ball of fibrous plant material, the larva living in the center of this ball and sapping nutrients from the leaf!
Despite the name, a quick Disclaimer, Part 2 you should not eat oak apples, as they are fuuull of tannins that would make you feel pretty sick. It does, surprisingly, smell just like apples though! Plus, bonus fact, oak apples have been used in the making of ink!
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This is partially an ID request, but mostly just wondering if you know what's going on here? This is a gall on an oak tree, with two wasps (maybe of two different species?) just... hanging out on it? First picture is from one night, there was only one wasp, and i thought it was dead (i'm thinking it was not). Others are from tonight, both alive.
Regardless, it was very exciting to see, and I want to share!
Lovation is mid-atlantic, usa
Ok, so I believe these wasps are in the family Torymidae... they are parasitoids on gall forming wasps. So, they are probably gathering to insert their ovipositors into the galls to lay eggs on the wasp larvae that formed the galls.
Torymidae - Wikipedia
Family Torymidae - BugGuide.Net
Any wasp specialists wanna chime in on this one?
Galls. Are. Everything.
I was just walking around staring at oaks for hours today. I’m not a biologist by any means, I absolutely always did adore the idea of the knowledge of taxonomy and such in general but galls made me feel things I never thought I could. I literally just saw new gall after new gall all just on valley oaks, like lobata you beautiful being how much immense intricacy and beauty do you house, how much does every OTHER plant in the world house. I literally felt so exhilarated everytime I saw a new one, and even the ones I’d already seen, they looked so fucking cool and captivated my heart. I saw a lot more but like, seriously, holy shit galls what have you done to this poor soul.
