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Live Oak Gallfly - Amphibolips quercuspomiformis - female
Copyright © 2007 Joyce Gross

Live Oak Gallfly - Amphibolips quercuspomiformis - Female
Las Trampas Regional Park, Contra Costa County, California, USA
November 4, 2006
Size: 25mm (larger gall)
On Quercus agrifolia. This is the summer, unisexual generation gall.

I brought these two galls home last year and had about 40 wasps representing 3 different species emerge from the two of them in 2007. I don't think any of them were the original creators of the gall, but I haven't had time to sort them out yet...

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Live Oak Gallfly - Amphibolips quercuspomiformis - female Live Oak Gallfly - Amphibolips quercuspomiformis - female
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Contributed by Joyce Gross on 23 September, 2007 - 3:51am

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