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I Can't Believe The Gall!!!!

Started by NewYankeeSawmill, May 02, 2024, 02:51:26 PM

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NewYankeeSawmill

Apparently google thinks that what this is? An Oak Gall. There's a wasp gestating on the inside or something apparently? Found it on an oak seedling in the understory near my pasture garden.



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beenthere

That is not what I think of as an oak gall. Have you a link for us as to what you found? Is the pic posted a pic of what you have on an oak?

Maybe a Texas woolly oak gall?
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NewYankeeSawmill

Quote from: beenthere on May 02, 2024, 04:00:14 PMMaybe a Texas woolly oak gall?
https://bugguide.net/node/view/1374696/bgimage

I would say that's what it looks like!
Yes, pic is from the woods around my place in East TN this afternoon.
I searched something like "White poofball with red spots on tree" and I'll be darned if it didn't spit out some pics that were pretty close.
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SwampDonkey

Looks like a gall. The insect injects a growth hormone into a vegetative bud and causes some crazy growth that becomes host to the larva. I see galls all over white spruce tips, look like funky cones, but it's injected into a vegetative bud, not a flower bud.
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I find galls quite regular here in red oak country 
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