2022

TQ9431 : Marble Wasp Galls

taken 2 years ago, near to Reading Street, Kent, England

Marble Wasp Galls
Marble Wasp Galls
Marble wasp (species Andricus kollari), on marble wasp galls formed in place of buds on an oak hedgerow twig. Moor Lane, Appledore, Kent.
A female gall-causer wasp (ie a wasp of family Cynipidae) lays her egg in the tissue of the host plant, inducing the plant to form the gall in which the egg hatches to a larva. The larva feeds on the tissue of the gall while developing into a wasp able to emerge and fly from the gall. Ref:P8270097ag.
Cecidology - the study of Galls

Cecidology is the name for the study of the world of galls.
A gall or a cecidium (plural: cecidia) is an abnormal growth in a plant caused by specific gall-causing insects, mites, or fungi.
Examples include the Oak Apple, that looks like a small round fruit but is actually a plant deformity caused by a wasp.

for info see: The British Plant Gall Society: LinkExternal link


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TQ9431, 45 images   (more nearby 🔍)
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Phil Brandon Hunter   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Saturday, 27 August, 2022   (more nearby)
Submitted
Sunday, 5 February, 2023
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! TQ 9415 3198 [10m precision]
WGS84: 51:3.2603N 0:46.1324E
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! TQ 9415 3198
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West-northwest (about 292 degrees)
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