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From the 'gall mast year' - Cynips multipunctata

From the 'gall mast year' - Cynips multipunctata
Del Puerto Canyon, Stanislaus County, California, USA
September 7, 2013
A pale-pinkish tinged, white hairy gall of Cynips multipunctatus is at center, with a greenish one seen to the right. I think the red "rocket" at left-of-center is a single, naked, early stage of an Andricus crystallinus gall...looking different than the perhaps more familiar form which typically occurs in clumps of many such "rockets" which, as they mature, develop a dense glistening thatch of long-ish, somewhat wavy hairs at peak maturity). The blurry red at left (center and bottom) are more typical A. crystallinus.

These galls are on the same blue oak (Quercus douglasii) seen in the post below: