Galls are abnormal growths and can be caused by a variety of different organisms, including insects and mites, and ...

For more than a hundred years, scientists have studied the strange partnership between ants and seeds. In this relationship, ...

The gall serves to protect the young, developing larva from predators and other species of parasitic wasps. In many cases the gall provides a source of nutritious food for the growing larva.

A comprehensive review of inquiline oak gall wasps provided an updated account of the New World species, including the description of three new taxa and a morphological key to distinguish the ...

Dryocosmus kuriphilus: The chestnut gall wasp, an invasive cynipid pest that causes gall formation on chestnut trees. Parasitoids: Insects whose larvae develop by feeding on a single host organism ...

Routine is a solace to many, but the winter garden is a reminder that change will come, and the gall wasp’s days are numbered.

She also worked with natural dye specialists AO Textiles of West Sussex on the project. She makes art using home-made black ink made from the oak galls formed by wasp larvae.

But they aren't 100% effective; some species of parasitoid wasps will lay their eggs inside the galls. The parasitoid wasp larvae will then feed on the larvae of the wool sower gall wasps. This can ...

The wasps that emerge from the wool sower galls will lay eggs in the stems, which will cause indistinct stem galls. In the spring, the wasps that emerge from the stem galls will lay eggs in leaf buds, ...