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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) » Callirhytis » Oak Flower Gall Wasp (Callirhytis pulchra)
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Oak currant gall - Callirhytis pulchra
Copyright © 2011 Jessica Walden-Gray

Oak currant gall - Callirhytis pulchra
Broad Meadow Brook Sanctuary, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
May 28, 2011
Size: 4mm
Currant gall from oak catkins. Majority of galls were littered on the ground but I found one attached to a fallen catkin. Gall was found May 28, eclosed June 3rd mostly within an hour

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Oak currant gall - Callirhytis pulchra Oak currant gall wasp - Callirhytis pulchra - male Oak currant gall wasp - Callirhytis pulchra - male
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Contributed by Jessica Walden-Gray on 11 June, 2011 - 12:33pm
Last updated 20 June, 2011 - 6:57am

Moved
Moved from Gall Wasps.
If you still have the gall, you can double-check the ID by cutting it open (see the link to the alternative on the guide page).
… Charley Eiseman, 20 June, 2011 - 6:57am login or register to post comments

Oak species
Do you know what kind of oak these were falling from?
… Charley Eiseman, 19 June, 2011 - 8:11pm login or register to post comments

 
galls
I don't know. I don't know my oaks well enough but I remember that there were black oaks in the woods. I'd be happy to have an excuse to go back to the spot.
… Jessica Walden-Gray, 19 June, 2011 - 8:59pm login or register to post comments

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