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… Charley Eiseman, 5 December, 2009 - 3:09pm

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… Charley Eiseman, 22 October, 2009 - 2:40am

i bet these

are galls. of course i loose alot of bets.

… shotguneddie, 17 October, 2009 - 3:48pm

Yeah, I don't

exactly bat a 1.000 myself.:-)

… Jon Hart, 17 October, 2009 - 6:30pm

I'd guess gall wasps

Wasps of the the Family Cynipidae often make galls on oak leaves. Check here for more information and here for more pictures of galls.

… Peter Edelman, 17 October, 2009 - 3:51pm

I agree

I think they're the same as these

...which I've tried once or twice to identify but couldn't find a perfect match. It would be great if you could collect some and see what comes out... cutting the galls open and getting a picture of what they look like on the inside might also help to key them out.

… Charley Eiseman, 17 October, 2009 - 9:13pm

I'll take a look for them

tomorrow, Charley. The weather down here has been a bear of late and many of the animals and their "artifacts" tend to get lost in those conditions.

… Jon Hart, 17 October, 2009 - 10:21pm

Dryocosmus make very similar

galls in construction if not coloring, what with the "lid" conspicuously on "top". By the way, Peter, thanks for the link to the gall pages (I couldn't find it myself, not being particularly computer-literate). I managed to find a couple of galls I had pics of that have been kicking around for a number of years.

… Jon Hart, 17 October, 2009 - 6:29pm