Hey Gallfriends! Today starts Project Gall Week 2022! Sep 3-11!
Starts today! Be sure to join the project and add your gall observations https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/gall-week-2022
I'm going to challenge myself to get as many different gall species in the Bay Area as I can! (While working 4 days this week (ha ha!). And get some new gall species! Today I started in Contra Costa County at Mt Diablo SP to pick up Urchin Gall and Coral Gall (both uncommon on blue oak):
Urchin gall (attaches to the leaf)
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/133560671
Coral gall (attaches to the stem)
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/133560733
Tomorrow it's the Livermore Valley area of Alameda County to get various additional oak and willow galls and some on sage.
What are your gall adventures looking like?
