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I found these beautiful things on a living leaf. At first, I thought they were insect eggs, but when I looked carefully I noticed that they had different sizes - and insect eggs are very similar to each other.
Spotted on May 6, 2012
Submitted on May 17, 2012
13 Comments
no problem, but it WAS a little bit like Water&fire , and you called it/me = "wire" :) . When i have written the explanation to search userfriendly and understandable: try it!! I found mine red galls , on this way. (marple-leaf galls). I think you will find them, with max 30 min research-work. Think about the Id you get and always try to verify it over other sites !! till next time
Alex, sorry for my mistake. I corrected my text, as you can see. Anyway, thank you for your help.
hi asergia, i think you have confused not just a little bit.
1# I'm alex konig !!!, and lars korb is a completly different person.
2# have you maybe actually searched yourself for an ID, on the net. Because i suggested to enter "red hairy galls" at google, just to begin a research about your galls, I never meant to suggest an "red hairy gall- Id" . I have no idea what species you spotted. (you should enter "red hairy galls" at google (helpfull is google-image; then, when you see a picture, you think they could be the same species, try to get an latin or common name out of this site/picture; when you have a name, do some reseach about the distribution, if it is possible that it appears in your surrounding; if it does,look for possible look-alikes!!!)
good luck
Thanks a lot, Alex. Each day I learn something new.
even with the hairs, i would still say: gall. enter at google-image "hairy gall" or "red gall" and take a look at that much variations. I think it's a gall
Scott, I intend to go back to where I spotted these, to take some more pics and check what is happening to them, but weather here has been quite bad (cold and heavily clouded). But as soon as it gets better I'll check it out again.
I first thought galls but I too have never seen hairs on them. The galls I have seen do normally show something on the underside of the leaf which indicates that the leaf structure is affected (by the gall). "Plant galls come in a wide variety of forms, textures and colors; bumps, warts, spheres, spines, fuzzy, hairy, smooth, etc." So I'll keep my eyes open :-)
Scott, the leaf was lightly discolored were the "things" were attached.
Another interestingly beautiful spotting!
They look like leaf galls, but I've never seen hairy ones before.
Intriguing!
Fascinating!!
Interesting. Was there anything visible on the underside of the leaf?