Gall

Such spottings should be capable of appearing under 2 categories but the system can't handle that. They still excite my tastebuds Lars.

Thanks, Jolly ^^

Lars, no matter what the classification is, its still a beautiful picture. Nice find.

Well...some ranger can take the effort to put it where ever PN considers it to fit well - personally, I'd leave it where it is. Whoever feels different is free to take action on this spotting.

I'm going to go ahead and agree with Mark on this one. I think it is best filed under arthropod. I would put a photo of a wasp's egg under arthropod, so I think I'd have to put its gall under arthropod too. So cool! I have some gall photos I hope to get around to posting soon.

Mark, I think it's well kept in the famous "other" category, since it's a plantogen just caused by an insect. But it is definetely no insect. And hey, who really cares about categories...?

Amazing! Thanks for the info Mark!

Chief and Leana... Galls are created usually by insects which 'irritate' a plant chemically to cause abnormal cell growth for the purpose of creating a dwelling. They can appear on many parts of a plant including leaves, buds, stems. Amazing huh!

uhmm...what are galls?

Make this an arthropod spotting?

Thanks....as Sergio mentioned, Billiards came up my mind at first sight :)

Cool galls ... they look like little berries. :)

These look so perfectly spherical. Beautiful photos.

a what?

That's it, Martin - thanks a lot!

How does this look for an ID? ( I don't think Jaffas grow on poplars=) )
http://bugguide.net/node/view/600055
http://www.insektenbox.de/zweifl/espgal....

LOL, Argy - you made my day :D

Great Lars... It's a Jaffa tree http://www.flickr.com/photos/78001486@N0...

Initially I thought it could only be the Red-Pea-Gall...but like you mentioned, it grows exclusively on Querci

Thanks Martin - I am not certain about the leaves...I think it's a Poplar species. And yes, you're right, most of these galls are on Quercus species. Cynips sp. is also the name of the wasp that's responsible.

Great spotting Lars :)

Nice Lars. They seem to be wasps galls. Here is a 'wasp eats wasp'. http://chrisraper.org.uk/Galls/index.htm...
Do you know the plant species? Many of these galls seem to be on Quercus

Thanks all.
Sergio, funnily I had a similar thought :D

cool spotting, Lars!

Do german bugs play billiards?