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Neuroterus quercusbaccarum
Currant Gall
(shown with Quercus robur)
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Photographer: Phil Pullen
ID: 0000 0000 0610 0928 (2010-06-12)Copyright © 2010 Phil Pullen
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INFORMATION PROVIDED WITH THE PHOTO
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date of photo Jun 11, 2010
location
West side of River Plym, near Marsh Mills, Plymouth (England, United Kingdom)family
Cynipidae
order
Hymenoptera
class Insecta
notes The photo shows the upper side of a leaf of Quercus robur, pedunculate oak. The spherical gall is on the underside of the leaf with the point of attachment showing here as a convex patch. The gall is caused by the sexual generation of the gall wasp and similar galls can be found on oak catkins. The agamic generation causes common spangle galls on the underside of the oak leaf.photo category: Animal - Invertebrate-Insect
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MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THIS ANIMAL
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Currant Gall (photographer)
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