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Anybody know where Joyce Gross is?

I have several sets of gall images in ID Request and she normally is very helpful in taking a look at them and making new guide pages... Is she on an extended vacation? Not sure if anyone here is in touch with her - I hope she's OK.
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Contributed by Ken Schneider on 22 July, 2008 - 6:48pm

I'm ok
... thanks for checking. :-)

Chuck is right, I'm out of town right now, on my annual trip to Ithaca, NY. Things have been kind of crazy for me lately even when I've been home, and next month I have to do some more traveling, for work this time. Unfortunately I haven't been able to check Bugguide postings as often as usual.

I don't have my books with me here, so I'll check out your galls in early August (unless someone else gets to it first). I think you're right about the Manzanita galls but I have to check .... and I'll see what Russo writes about the alder galls; I don't know those. You're probably right since you've been right about your gall IDs in the past. CA oak galls are the only ones I might know without access to books.
… Joyce Gross, 23 July, 2008 - 10:58pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks, Joyce!
Glad to hear that you're all right and I hope you have a great summer. No rush of course - I'll leave them in ID request. I also posted a sagebrush gall in addition to the two you mentioned. I like adding these to BG because galls are sometimes conspicuous and easily noticed by folks who might look here for matching images...
… Ken Schneider, 24 July, 2008 - 9:49am login or register to post comments

 
galls section
It might help me find them if you put them in the galls section of the guide for the time being, given the rate at which I'm getting behind in looking through the id section. I just found your sagebrush galls ... those are distinctive I recall, I just don't recall the midge name, but you most likely have it right. Those are among my favorite non-oak galls.
… Joyce Gross, 24 July, 2008 - 11:00pm login or register to post comments

 
I forgot about the galls section -
I'll move all three sets of images there now...

Thanks!

Edit: Done! By the way - why is the galls section under Insecta and not Arthropods (given the number of galls caused by mites, for example)??
… Ken Schneider, 24 July, 2008 - 11:04pm login or register to post comments

Summer is busy
people go on vacations, trips to collect specimens, etc. Checking her user page, I see she created a guide page a little over a week ago- not long enough of an absence to worry about.
… Chuck Entz, 23 July, 2008 - 1:11am login or register to post comments

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