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Photo#368614
Speckled Gall Wasp - Cynips mirabilis

Speckled Gall Wasp - Cynips mirabilis
Naches Trail Preserve, Pierce County, Washington, USA
January 31, 2010
Found on Oregon White Oak aka Garry Oak.

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Speckled Gall Wasp - Cynips mirabilis Speckled Gall Wasp - Cynips mirabilis Speckled Gall Wasp - Cynips mirabilis Speckled Gall Wasp Torymid wasp - parasitoid of Speckled Gall Wasp - female

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Moved from Torymidae.
Your gall ID looks great to me--the torymid was a parasitoid of the cynipid that caused the gall. I'm not sure whether the larva you photographed is a cynipid or a torymid.

 
Thanks so much
the larva turned into the wasp, and I watched it pretty closely, so I'm fairly certain it is torymid. I guess I need to go collect more of these galls and see what happens.

 
How did you keep the larva alive
after removing it from the gall? Just curious... my rearing techniques could use some improvement.

 
keeping larva alive
Um... if my memory serves me I put it back into the broken ball the best I could and didn't mess with it any more. I raised more than one of them though and I think at least one was outside the ball. I've found that if the larva is removed when it is at its peak it will transform into the wasp just left out in the open. I left this guy below out in the open and recorded its transformation (most of the way)


I'll go collect a bunch more of these and do a larger experiment, watching some of the larva much more closely. The funny thing is, I think all of them that emerged were the parasitoid.

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Moved from Speckled Gall Wasp.

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