November 27, 2020: Jimmie Thompson (RIP) collected various stems and stem galls including galls on Sawtooth sunflower, Helianthus grosseserratus. Since some galls had holes, I cut them open along with their stems to find:
This round gall with a small hole, live larva inside, photographed, taped the gall back together, put into a vial, unsuccessful rearing.


Empty galls (most stems empty too), a gall filled with different looking frass, 2 different lep larvae (different from each other too), one of which was in a gall and one was in the stem above a gall, a wasp cocoon in a gall, a dead wasp in another gall and Oecanthus eggs in 2 stems (and later, wasps):


The round galls were put into a jar .
These more elliptical galls were put into another jar and yielded 3 parasitoid wasps and 3 Bucculatrix simulans moths. As I was readying to photograph one of the moths, it flew off. Looked all over for it and then there it was, on the lens cap.

Moths emerged from several jars: June 25 to July 17, 2021
August 4, 2021: photographed spent cocoons


Batch rearings.