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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » "Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps » Cynipoidea » Gall Wasps (Cynipidae) » Oak Gall Wasps (Cynipini) » Amphibolips » confluenta or quercusspongifica (Amphibolips confluenta or quercusspongifica)
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What might this be? - Amphibolips
Copyright © 2007 Jo Ann Poe-McGavin

What might this be? - Amphibolips
Jim Thorpe, Carbon County, Pennsylvania, USA
April 15, 2007
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Contributed by Jo Ann Poe-McGavin on 16 April, 2007 - 1:07pm
Last updated 5 December, 2009 - 7:50pm

Moved
Moved from Spongy Oak Apple Gall Wasp.
… Charley Eiseman, 5 December, 2009 - 7:50pm login or register to post comments

Oak galls.
These are galls made by a wasp in the family Cynipidae. The exit hole shows where an adult wasp chewed its way out. A single larva develops in the central cell, which is 'suspended' by that network of filaments. Makes a comfy home.
… Eric R. Eaton, 16 April, 2007 - 1:23pm login or register to post comments

 
Ah! Thank-you! I have never s
Ah! Thank-you! I have never seen those before.
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