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Winged Sumac Gall [=Melaphis? rhois??] ID Request
Copyright © 2015 Thomas Wilson of Armistead Gardens in Baltimore City

Winged Sumac Gall [=Melaphis? rhois??] ID Request
Herring Run Watershed, Baltimore City County, Maryland, USA
May 27, 2015
Observed on Rhus copallina.

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Winged Sumac Gall [=Melaphis? rhois??] ID Request Winged Sumac Gall [=Melaphis? rhois??] ID Request Winged Sumac Gall [=Melaphis? rhois??] ID Request
Contributed by Thomas Wilson of Armistead Gardens in Baltimore City on 29 May, 2015 - 2:54am

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This seems to be a distorted leaf rather than a narrowly attached, ~spherical gall as is made by Melaphis rhois. It's possible that it was caused by the feeding of some other kind of aphid, or maybe by a fungus or virus.
… Charley Eiseman, 13 August, 2015 - 12:53pm

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