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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Nematocera" (Non-Brachycera) » Gnats, Gall Midges, and March Flies (Bibionomorpha) » Fungus Gnats and Gall Midges (Sciaroidea) » Gall Midges and Wood Midges (Cecidomyiidae) » Gall Midges (Cecidomyiinae) » Cecidomyiidi » Asphondyliini » Ampelomyia » Ampelomyia vitiscoryloides
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This is not a bug, but I suspect made by a bug...can you identify what made this? - Ampelomyia vitiscoryloides
Copyright © 2015 Jill Lockey

This is not a bug, but I suspect made by a bug...can you identify what made this? - Ampelomyia vitiscoryloides
Janesville, Bremer County, Iowa, USA
July 27, 2015
Size: 4"x4"
This is located on a lower branch of a soft maple tree. I did not see any other ones. Does anyone know what type of insect constructed this and if whatever hatches from it will harm the tree? It is certainly an interesting structure. Sort of wasp nest-like, but completely enclosed. I did not touch it, so I don't know if it is paper-like as if it were made by wasps.
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Contributed by Jill Lockey on 27 July, 2015 - 11:44pm
Last updated 17 November, 2015 - 7:13am

Moved
Moved from Unidentified Galls.
… Charley Eiseman, 17 November, 2015 - 7:13am login or register to post comments

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… v belov, 8 August, 2015 - 9:30pm login or register to post comments

ID of a Gall
Thanks for the ID. I looked up info on both galls and gall midges. I know a little more than I did before. You bug guys are good and quick to respond. I will keep an eye on the gall. Maybe I can catch something hatching out. This might be on a grape vine in the soft maple tree not on the maple itself. Will have to have a second look. Galls are strangely beautiful. Now I will be out looking for more to photograph. Thanks again.
J. Lockey
… Jill Lockey, 29 July, 2015 - 12:28am login or register to post comments

Gall, I expect
Very similar to this one:

… Ken Wolgemuth, 28 July, 2015 - 7:06am login or register to post comments

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