S. integrifolium - tiny little pimple close to the leaf margin, single larva contained within. Preserved in 95% etOH and en route to @louisnastasi
Gall in center of pictures 8, 9, 10
Thanks @alex_abair for your (quick!) feedback on observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/227662948.
I went back to take a few green balls, and open 2. Pictures show what was found.
Videos at https://youtu.be/JBFd6UiQw4E?feature=shared
and https://youtu.be/JR4R8Z9CCJ0?feature=shared
So we have (developing?) galls, @louisnastasi. Your info @friesen5000.
Remember: all with cheap clip-on macro lens attached to cell camera.
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Photos 1 and 2 are wasp 1.
Photos 3 to 6 are wasp 2.
Photos 7 and 8 are wasp 3.
But it could also be 1 or 2 wasps that changes spot.
Same garden as usual, still no signs of galls (unless I don't know what to look for).
On Lactuca, wild lettuce. Stem galls. East side of Chicot State Park near spillway
Hey @joeysantore, here’s a cool remnant limestone prairie spot in Austin
@destes if this ID is right, might be a county record for Grundy. Northernmost population at least on iNat
Quercus falcata. One leaf w/ multiple galls. Sending to Forbes lab. Ceroptres wasp appeared to be ovipositing into the galls. Ceroptres wasp obs at https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/223867394
Second (Chalcidoid?) wasp appeared in container with leaf/galls. Obs at
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/223861029
Posting for reference. An unusual gall on this plant is being posted. Generations of unplanted seedlings from native plants in the region. Town of Washington.
On Quercus alba
Coll 29May2024 KR ROW
Emerged 12Jun2024
24-017
https://gallformers.org/gall/870
Found on the Salvia in the second photo
Verbesina virginica. Stem galls located on many stems. Old brown gall on dead stem very near the original plant is shown with larva inside.
Same location, same host as observed the day before: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/220788455
Can’t tell if it is the same specimen, so new observation.
Several of these wasps emerged from this leaf loaded with galls.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/213608832
@megachile
Appeared in container w/ Andricus quercuspetiolicola galls collected on 6-4-24. Sending to Forbes lab in EtOH Gall obs at https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/220566892
On Q. falcata. Wasp on leaf w/ (probably) Polystepha galls. Sending wasp and leaf to Forbes lab. I thought wasp was recently dead b/c not moving but it moved when I tried to pick it up with tweezers. Put into EtOH.
Posted separately from other smaller leaf galls, but on same Silphium gracile plant. Lowest leaf, now dead. Collected for researcher. KNF off FS road 249, vicinity of Woodworth
Silphium gracile leaf galls. FS road 249, KNF. Vicinity of Woodworth.
Last 2 photos show the same plant with normal flower and seed heads. Plant, Silphium gracile, posted separately. Town of Washington, my yard.
Gall on Fumaria c.f muralis. Inside I only found what seems to be a puparium. Thought it was empty until I observed this failed pupa shortly after.
I think this might be the sexgen of Neuroterus tantulus, I’ll try barcoding it to verify
After leaving Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historical Site, I made a few observations along the road through Washington, Fayette, and Lee Counties, none of which are in a Texas CNC metroplex.
Second day of the 2024 City Nature Challenge: Global Project.
Yet another new species! Original host gall observation here: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/167275394
On Scrophularia lucida, here the ovaries have swollen up to twice the expected capsule size, with the petals still attached.
On Scrophularia canum subsp. bicolor
Collected from a gall on Silphium asteriscus var. latifolium.
Gall was collected on 3 Oct 2023. Two Eurytoma sp. parasitoids emerged 25 Apr 2024. The gall and parasitoid adults were frozen (my incorrect assumption that they were inducers). I waited a week and fearing they were dead, and not wanting them to deteriorate, I opened the gall. I found eight adult inducers and five adult Eurytoma parasitoids. Additionally I found one larva that did not develop. All were dead but all of the adults appeared fully mature and several had begun tunneling out of the gall.
Observation for gall: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/185363470
Observation for host plant: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/185363280
Observation for Eurytoma parasitoids found inside the gall: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/212771463
Observation for undeveloped larva: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/212771469
Host ID based on previous observations (https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/136309317) from same spot. Could even be the same plant, this is the only Lactuca I could find and looks like a 2 year old stem (galls vacated)
Undescribed species. Collected these galls for Louis Nastasi.
observation for the stem gall - on Silphium compositum