2022

TQ8933 : Smooth Spangle Wasp Galls

taken 2 years ago, near to Leigh Green, Kent, England

Smooth Spangle Wasp Galls
Smooth Spangle Wasp Galls
The Smooth Spangle Wasp Gall (caused by the Cynipini wasp species Neuroterus albipes). On the underside of an oak leaf. Limes Land, Tenterden, 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:P9140013ug.
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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TQ8933, 85 images   (more nearby 🔍)
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Phil Brandon Hunter   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Wednesday, 14 September, 2022   (more nearby)
Submitted
Sunday, 5 February, 2023
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! TQ 8956 3349 [10m precision]
WGS84: 51:4.1660N 0:42.2550E
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OSGB36: geotagged! TQ 8956 3350
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