Some Biorhiza Pallida are messing with my oak saplings!

#gardening #oak #OakApple #wasps #galls #wasp #trees #gardens

Nature fans: the spring Gall Week starts May 2nd! URL has details on how to participate on iNaturalist, plus links to an excellent podcast featuring Adam Kranz. #nature #biology #inaturalist #cynipidae #galls #insects #mites #wasps https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/257180/journal/129848
Gall Mite Set I

My research points me to the *Eriophyes* (https://w.wiki/GcAD) genus, but I don't have a good guess for the species 🤷‍♂️

#PNW #USA #WA #MasonCounty #ONF #Summer #Nature #Fauna #Animals #Mites #Galls #Plants #Parasites #Forest #Hiking #Outdoors #Photography #MobilePhotography #Wikipedia

Well. Time flies.. Anyway. Over a year later the #oak #galls dried nicely so the little Hobbit and I started the #ink making process.

First the ingredients. We're using a simple recipe and I base it on using 10 grams of galls.

1 - 4 grams of Iron(II) sulfate
2 - 4 grams of Gum arabic
3 - 30ml of water (from our well, boiled, no chemicals)
4 - 10grams of oak gall

#FunWithBalls #InkMaking

Ripe and ready to eat :)

#gall #galls

Here are the galls of the Cynips quercusfolii, better known as Cherry gall wasp (in Dutch: Eikengalwesp). The small cup-shaped galls are from the Neuroterus albipes, also known as the Snooth spangle gall wasp (in Dutch: Plaatjesgalwesp)

The galls contain the female larvae. Mostly to be found underneath oak leaves.

#nature #insects #galls #oak #natuur #insekten #eik