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Gall on prairie sage
Copyright © 2016 John van der Linden

Gall on prairie sage
McCarthy Lake Wildlife Management Area, Wabasha County, Minnesota, USA
July 9, 2016
Some of the prairie sage (A. ludoviciana) plants in a sand prairie remnant had these galls on them. A similar gall (with the same irregular discolored hole) is present on prairie sage along the bike trail here in Decorah, IA, and when I opened one of the Iowa galls, there was a lep inside -- so I'm posting this under Lepidoptera for now.
I wonder...could it be the larva of this moth MJ inadvertently reared?

In the remarks for this post, note Terry Harrison's comment that MJ's moth "is most likely a root/stem borer"
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Contributed by John van der Linden on 13 July, 2016 - 12:23pm
Last updated 2 December, 2016 - 10:15pm

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