Gall wasp
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Gall wasps, also traditionally called gallflies, or cynipids, are hymenopterans of the family Cynipidae in the wasp superfamily Cynipoidea. Their common name comes from the galls they induce on plants
Gall Wasp Cynipidae family, Leesylvania State Park, Woodbridge, Virginia
Diastrophus nebulosus on a raspberry gall
Andricus quercuscalicis parthenogenetic generation gall
Cynips longiventris parthenogenetic generation gall
Andricus quercuscalicis
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Andricus quercuscalicis is a gall wasp species inducing knopper galls.
Gall wasp
…Oak marble gall Knopper gall Common spangle gall…
Galls (upper left and right) formed on acorns on the branch of a pedunculate (or English) oak tree by the parthenogenetic generation Andricus quercuscalicis.
A larva of Andricus quercuscalicis in a gall formed in Quercus robur