Hi I’m big into plants and I was wondering how wasps form galls on plants and what processes actually happen to the plant cell during gallification lol, I keep noticing galls on plants around me but entomology or waspology in this case is pretty elusive to me
I recently got a Pluggable USB dissecting scope, so of course I had to test it out by going through my collection of specimen jars.
I was looking at some oak galls I had collected in 2017 (not sure which Quercus species, there are many in the area), and in the jar I also found a small red iridescent wasp!
I am not 100% sure that the wasp came from the galls itself - or that it even is a wasp - but I don't have any other idea as to how it got into the jar.
It was collected in Northern California's Butte County, near the town of Cohasset. The area's biome ranges from montane coniferous forest to dry and rocky chaparral.
Please help, and if I can add any more details let me know! Thanks!
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Located in Melbourne. I have a Lemon tree that use to produce a ton of lemons but now it hasn't due to too a large infestation of Citrus Gall. I did alot of pruning 2 years ago and put up those yellow traps. This year it kind of started fruit but theres still a ton of non holed wasp bulges all over the tree. I have a young orange tree not far away thats starting to get affected. I've already pruned off the bulges.
Is there any good way to manage this ? It's probably an uphill battle.
I feel like I need to cut off every branch and burn it :) Currently whenever I prune off affected leaves I just leave them soak in a bucket of water for a few weeks.
The gall wasp tinkers with its host tree’s genes in order to get the tree to make a protective shell for it. I’m wondering if we could do the same thing on a larger scale to make truly natural and compostable materials like plates, bowls, and food storage and the like.
Hi all
We just moved into a new house in Melbourne's north. We have a lemon (probably about 2.5m tall) that appears to be fully infested with gall wasp. Most of the branches and smaller twigs and shoots have the woody galls with holes where the wasps have emerged, even the newer green ones. There is a fairly large mandarin around 3m away from this tree that is not affected.
My question is how do we deal with this? It really is most of tree. Is the best option to cut the bulk of tree back and let it regrow or remove it completely? Any experience and advice is greatly appreciated!
