@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
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.
Welcome to our 6th Gall Week event! Please add any new gall observations taken between September 7-15 to this project manually. Galls are 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 9/7-15, and upload them manually to the project. Uploading observations can continue after the event ends as long as they were documented during that week. 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 aren't sure what it was. Please do share your observations even if you are new to iNaturalist, and not sure yet how to use some of these features. If you're new to galling, you can check what are the best host plants in your area. You can use gall or insect b...
Update. The galls are nicely dried out now. This winter I'll turn them into ink.
Unfortunately one of the #galls was still occupied. The little wasp perished inside the stack of glass containers. 😬
Nice fruit. Look almost ripe. I wonder what they taste like. Probably like insects.
It's GALL WEEK!!!
Here's a gall on a wild strawberry caused by a (likely undescribed) gall wasp species in the genus Diastrophus. The gall even started growing roots! Found in the boreal forest of northwestern Ontario, Canada.
Post your gall pics and join the project on iNaturalist. Get your gall on!!
#Cynipidae #gall #galls #GallWasp #iNaturalist #GallWeek2024 #Diastrophus #Ontario #Canada
Welcome to our 6th Gall Week event! Please add any new gall observations taken between September 7-15 to this project manually. Galls are 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 9/7-15, and upload them manually to the project. Uploading observations can continue after the event ends as long as they were documented during that week. 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 aren't sure what it was. Please do share your observations even if you are new to iNaturalist, and not sure yet how to use some of these features. If you're new to galling, you can check what are the best host plants in your area. You can use gall or insect b...
Here’s my first contribution!
This is a “t-distichum-starburst-gall” on our Baldcypress. It is actually an undescribed species! This is the second location I’ve found it in, and the first time at our place. (Edit: I'm not the only observer in Louisiana; I just figured out how to search iNaturalist by observation fields)
It's Fall Gall Week!
Get out there and look for weird bumps or growths on plants, take some pics, and upload to iNaturalist. Oak trees are always good hosts, and asters seem to be having a big gall year, at least where I live.
There is an iNaturalist project you can join here: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/gall-week-september-2024
You can tag me (@daniel_observer) to help with IDs, or use gallformers.org to find out more info!
Welcome to our 6th Gall Week event! Please add any new gall observations taken between September 7-15 to this project manually. Galls are 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 9/7-15, and upload them manually to the project. Uploading observations can continue after the event ends as long as they were documented during that week. 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 aren't sure what it was. Please do share your observations even if you are new to iNaturalist, and not sure yet how to use some of these features. If you're new to galling, you can check what are the best host plants in your area. You can use gall or insect b...
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