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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Pygmy Leafmining Moths (Nepticuloidea) » Nepticulidae » Ectoedemia » populella group (Ectoedemia populella group) » Poplar Petiole Gall Moth - Hodges#0052 (Ectoedemia populella)
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gall on quaking aspen - Ectoedemia populella
Copyright © 2011 Molly Jacobson

gall on quaking aspen - Ectoedemia populella
Merrimack, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA
April 14, 2011
I went gall-hunting this afternoon, and I must say I am pleased with my findings. This first one I found on a quaking aspen leaf. The leaf itself looked like it had been affected somehow, but I found many other leaves like this. One other I found with that strange whitish-layer had a small gall on the leaf, which I later noticed on this one too, towards the center.
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Contributed by Molly Jacobson on 14 April, 2011 - 5:41pm
Last updated 27 April, 2011 - 2:45am

Moved based on Charley's ID
Moved from ID Request.
… Brad Barnd, 27 April, 2011 - 2:45am login or register to post comments

Big-tooth aspen
Based on the coarse teeth on the margin of the leaf in your second photo, your tree is a Big-toothed Aspen (Populus grandidentata), not Quaking Aspen (P. tremuloides).
… John Pearson, 14 April, 2011 - 10:14pm login or register to post comments

 
hmmm
I always thought it was a quaking aspen. Maybe this particluar leaf blew in from somewhere, another aspen? Because I am pretty sure the aspen in back of my house has leaves without serrated edges. I won't know for sure until the leaves come out. But interesting to know there is a big-toothed aspen near my house.
… Molly Jacobson, 16 April, 2011 - 9:14am login or register to post comments

Moth gall
Seems to be one of these:
… Charley Eiseman, 14 April, 2011 - 10:10pm login or register to post comments

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