took the fancy camera to high park this morning!
i was mostly looking for galls for #GallWeek but i also saw plenty of sand wasps enjoying the sun, and a coyote! i was walking away from it but it crossed the street to avoid me anyway and a car that was going too fast had to stop for it 🙄
(there are Plans to gradually #BanCars in High Park, people are big mad)
#galls #GallWeek2025 #bugstodon #insects #wasps #coyote #coyotes #Hymenoptera #Crabronidae #Bembicini
P. S.
Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors. Here, in a case where any shock may prove fatal, matters are so ordered that, from some cause or other, the things not personal—even the terrible change in her daughter to whom she is so attached—do not seem to reach her. It is something like the way Dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that which it would otherwise harm by contact.
Happy #GallWeek2025!
Welcome to the 8th Gall Week event! During September 6-14, please document galls = structures induced by arthropods, fungi, and sometimes bacteria on plants. Please do not document here leaf miners or other evidence of feeding, unless they are gall-related. To participate, please join the project, document new observations between 9/6-14, and upload them manually to the project. Uploading observations can continue after the event ends. More info from our earlier projects: Don't forget to add information about the host plant - as a note, or even better, in the fields: Host and Host plant ID field. You can also link to the host plant observation, especially if you're unsure what it was. If you've never done this before, you can check what the best host plants are in your area. You can use gall or insect books from your area, websites (such as https://gallformers.org/), podcasts (https://podcast.naturesarchive.com/2021/09/14/galls/), and iNat. You can view all previous Gall Week projec...
Welcome to the 8th Gall Week event! During September 6-14, please document galls = structures induced by arthropods, fungi, and sometimes bacteria on plants. Please do not document here leaf miners or other evidence of feeding, unless they are gall-related. To participate, please join the project, document new observations between 9/6-14, and upload them manually to the project. Uploading observations can continue after the event ends. More info from our earlier projects: Don't forget to add information about the host plant - as a note, or even better, in the fields: Host and Host plant ID field. You can also link to the host plant observation, especially if you're unsure what it was. If you've never done this before, you can check what the best host plants are in your area. You can use gall or insect books from your area, websites (such as https://gallformers.org/), podcasts (https://podcast.naturesarchive.com/2021/09/14/galls/), and iNat. You can view all previous Gall Week projec...
#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
Seems an age ago now, but on Monday went looking for Oak Galls along Digby Avenue in Wollaton Park. Harder to find this year, and no Trigonapsis 😞, but quite a few nice Andricus gemmeus.
Highlight was an Alder Tongue on by return route (a gall I've missed out on locally).
neville park
Neville Park
Colin Purrington
SK53
