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Cecidomyiidae on Prairie Sage - Rhopalomyia
Copyright © 2016 MJ Hatfield

Cecidomyiidae on Prairie Sage - Rhopalomyia
W-14, gravel road ditch, Winneshiek County, Iowa, USA
August 17, 2016
Size: galls 2-3 mm
Same rearing batch as

July 19, 2016: collected lep stem swellings on Prairie Sage, Artemisia ludoviciana, and inadvertently collected fuzzy leaf galls
August 14, 2016: a live gall fly
August 16, 2016: a live gall fly
August 17, 2016: sorted through the rearing container, removing the leaves with galls. One leaf had a cluster of 3 galls, 2 of which had what looked to be emergent holes (no spent pupal case). Cut open the 3rd gall to a live gall fly pupa

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Contributed by MJ Hatfield on 21 August, 2016 - 9:38am

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