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Black Wattle Gall Midge

Dasineura rubiformis

Description:

These strange growths on black wattle form at branch tips and look nothing at all like the flowers or seed pods of the host plant.

Habitat:

On Acacia mearnsii in a local nature reserve.

Notes:

The galls are caused by a midge larva (dipteran). First described in 2005.

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3 Comments

Mark Ridgway
Mark Ridgway 2 years ago


No problems John. It's actually Michael Sarill, who owns and runs the Project, that we need to thank. Glad it's back in shape.
https://www.projectnoah.org/users/Michae...

John B.
John B. 2 years ago

Hi again Mark, thank you so much for rescuing my drafts again. I promise not to trouble you with this problem if it recurs. I simply have to discipline myself to keep better records of what I upload so that I will be better able to reconstruct my spottings. Thank you for your patience. John B.

John B.
John B. 2 years ago

Hi Mark, I hope you can forgive this intrusion as I am using the comment box as a means of contacting you (not for its real purpose which is to make a comment on your spotting). A couple of weeks ago you were able to fix my problem with "drafts" and made them appear on my spottings page so that I would be able to deal with them. I'm afraid that the situation has arisen again and I now know of 2 drafts that don't show up. so I have no way of accessing them. The original batch that you fixed were caused by frequent collapses in the signal from my pocket WiFi as was a recent one. I didn't contact you straight away, because I thought that my problems would soon be over. Just two days ago I finally had a long-awaited installation of a fibre-optic internet service. So i hoped everything would be O.K., but today, I clicked my mouse on the wrong part of my screen and caused another draft. If there is nothing that can be done, then I will accept that and continue as normal with my spottings because I enjoy Project Noah so much. But I would love to be able to set something aside as a draft and return to it later if that were possible, rather like the draft folder in Gmail. I would be most grateful for your help once again. John B.

Mark Ridgway
Spotted by
Mark Ridgway

Narre Warren North, Victoria, Australia

Spotted on Apr 26, 2022
Submitted on Apr 27, 2022

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