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Bursting out - Kokkocynips decidua
Copyright © 2014 John F. Carr

Bursting out - Kokkocynips decidua
Needham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA
September 26, 2014
The galls started underneath, but some of the cluster punched a hole through the leaf and ended on top.
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Contributed by John F. Carr on 30 September, 2014 - 9:05pm
Last updated 19 January, 2017 - 5:14pm

Moved
Moved from Unidentified Galls.
Probably Quercus velutina. Are these the ones I got in the mail yesterday, same location, collected 9/26/2014 (the date you gave above is 8/26/14)?

It seems likely that the mystery galls appearing singly on Q. rubra are another Dryocosmus species, although this superficially similar one from California is a Callirhytis:
… Charley Eiseman, 1 October, 2014 - 5:13pm login or register to post comments

 
Date fixed
These are the galls you have from Needham. I corrected the date. Is it really September already? (No, it's October.)
… John F. Carr, 1 October, 2014 - 5:28pm login or register to post comments

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