- identified. This
applies particularly to
insect and mite
plant galls. The
study of
plant galls is
known as cecidology.
Galls develop on
various plant organs,...
-
observation of the
galls produced rather than of the
insect itself. A
gall protects the
developing gall wasp for the most
vulnerable stage of its life cycle...
- A
gall-inducing
insect is any
insect that can
cause the
growth of
galls within plants.
There are
several groups of
insects that meet this description....
- This is a list of
insect galls arranged into families.
Podapion gallicola Saperda fayi Thorn-limb
Borer Saperda populnea Small Poplar Borer Weevils Ampeloglypter...
- hardened,
bulbous chamber referred to as a
gall. E. solidaginis’s
interactions with its host plant(s) and
insect, as well as avian,
predators have made it...
-
gall midges or
gall gnats. As the name implies, the
larvae of most
gall midges feed
within plant tissue,
creating abnormal plant growths called galls...
-
wasps in
different life
stages occupy the same
gall. The
induced galls help
establish complex insect communities,
promoting the
diversification in niche...
- The
pineapple gall adelgid (Adelges abietis) is a
species of conifer-feeding
insect that
forms pineapple-shaped
plant galls on its host species, commonly...
-
cross section Biorhiza pallida male
Knopper gall Pineapple gall Cranshaw,
Whitney (2004).
Garden Insects of
North America. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton...
-
knopper gall can,
under some
growth conditions, be
mistaken for the
acorn cup
gall,
caused by the
gall wasp
Andricus grossulariae. A
number of
insect inquilines...
