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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » "Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps » Cynipoidea » Gall Wasps (Cynipidae) » Oak Gall Wasps (Cynipini) » Dryocosmus » Pumpkin Gall Wasp (Dryocosmus minusculus)
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Pumpkin Gall on upper leaf surface of Coast Live Oak, Quercus agrifolia - Dryocosmus minusculus
Copyright © 2010 Peter Bryant

Pumpkin Gall on upper leaf surface of Coast Live Oak, Quercus agrifolia - Dryocosmus minusculus
Laguna Laurel, Laguna Beach, Orange County, California, USA
March 15, 2010
Size: 1.8mm diam.
Pumpkin Gall Wasp, Dryocosmus minisculus?

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Pumpkin Gall on upper leaf surface of Coast Live Oak, Quercus agrifolia - Dryocosmus minusculus Wasp hatched from pumpkin gall on upper leaf surface of Coast Live Oak, Quercus agrifolia Wasp hatched from pumpkin gall on upper leaf surface of Coast Live Oak, Quercus agrifolia Pumpkin Gall Wasp, hatched from gall on upper leaf surface of Coast Live Oak, Quercus agrifolia - Synergus Pumpkin Gall Wasp, hatched from gall on upper leaf surface of Coast Live Oak, Quercus agrifolia - Synergus
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Contributed by Peter Bryant on 15 March, 2010 - 11:58pm
Last updated 5 January, 2024 - 8:50pm

Moved
Moved from Gall Wasps.
… Adam Kranz, 5 January, 2024 - 8:50pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Gall Wasps.
… Bob Zuparko, 1 March, 2018 - 4:49pm login or register to post comments

yep, gall was created by Dryocosmus minisculus
but something else came out of it! Hopefully someone will come along and place the adult that emerged to family...

And the tree, as you say, has to be Q. agrifolia (in the black oak group).
… Joyce Gross, 16 March, 2010 - 12:51am login or register to post comments

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