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    Gall wasps, also traditionally called gallflies, are hymenopterans of the family Cynipidae in the wasp superfamily Cynipoidea. Their common name comes...
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  • layer. In a general gall wasp gall, the outermost layer is the epidermis followed by outer cortex and then inner cortex. In some galls these two cortex layers...
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    Oak apple (redirect from Oak-gall)
    kinds of gall wasp in the family Cynipidae. The adult female wasp lays single eggs in developing leaf buds. The wasp larvae feed on the gall tissue resulting...
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    gall wasp which causes a gall known as the rose bedeguar gall, bedeguar gall wasp, Robin's pincushion, mossy rose gall, or simply moss gall. The gall...
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    While pollinating fig wasps are gall-makers, the remaining types either make their own galls or usurp the galls of other fig wasps; reports of their being...
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    Amphibolips quercusjuglans (category Gall-inducing insects)
    Amphibolips quercusjuglans, the acorn plum gall wasp, is a species of gall wasp in the family Cynipidae. "Amphibolips quercusjuglans species Information"...
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    Andricus quercuscalicis is a gall wasp species inducing knopper galls. Knopper galls develop as a chemically induced distortion of growing acorns on pedunculate...
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    kollari, also known as the marble gall wasp, is a parthenogenetic species of wasp which causes the formation of marble galls on oak trees. Synonyms for the...
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    Andricus quercusstrobilanus, the lobed oak gall wasp, is a species of gall wasp in the family Cynipidae, found in North America. The quercus in its specific...
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    Cynips douglasii (category Gall-inducing insects)
    turbaned gall wasp, is a species of gall wasp in the family Cynipidae. It induces galls in valley oaks, blue oak, and California scrub oak. The leaf galls induced...
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    Andricus is a genus of oak gall wasps in the family Cynipidae. As in all Hymenoptera, sex-determination in species of the genus Andricus is governed by...
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    on/360143571_The_Asian_Chestnut_Gall_Wasp_in_North_America/links/626447898cb84a40ac845cd8/The-Asian-Chestnut-Gall-Wasp-in-North-America.pdf Avtzis, Dimitrios...
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    States) has found that love-vine inhibits gall wasps by attacking the galls (small growths on plants) that the wasps create for their young. Cassytha filiformis...
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    Feron kingi (category Gall-inducing insects)
    Feron kingi, the red cone gall wasp, is a species of gall wasp in the family Cynipidae. This species induces galls on various white oak species, such as...
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    genus of approximately fifty species of gall-inducing wasps in the family Diplolepididae. The larvae induce galls on wild roses (Rosa), and rarely on domestic...
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    parthenogenetic gall wasp which lays a single egg within a leaf bud, using its ovipositor, to produce a gall known as an oak artichoke gall, oak hop gall, larch-cone...
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    Wasps in the family Pompilidae are commonly called spider wasps, spider-hunting wasps, or pompilid wasps. The family is cosmopolitan, with some 5,000 species...
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    kuriphilus is a species of gall wasp known by the common names chestnut gall wasp, Oriental chestnut gall wasp, and Asian chestnut gall wasp. It is native to China...
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    support more than 950 species of caterpillar, many kinds of gall wasp which form distinctive galls, roundish woody lumps such as the oak apple, and a large...
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    Andricus californicus), or the California gall wasp, is a small wasp species that induces oak apple galls on white oaks, primarily the valley oak (Quercus...
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    plant tissues and form galls, which protect the developing larvae from predators, but not necessarily from other parasitic wasps. In some species, the...
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    confluenta Spongy Oak Apple Gall Wasp Amphibolips cookii Oak Apple Gall Wasp Amphibolips nubilipennis Translucent Oak Gall Wasp Amphibolips quercusinanis...
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    chrysolepidicola , also known as the irregular-spindle gall wasp, is a species of cynipid wasp that induces stem galls on blue oaks, valley oaks, scrub oaks, and...
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    Euderus set (redirect from Cryptkeeper wasp)
    crypt-keeper wasp, is a tiny chalcid wasp from the family Eulophidae from the United States, described in 2017 as a parasitoid of the gall wasp Bassettia...
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    Neuroterus numismalis (category Gall-inducing insects)
    Neuroterus numismalis is a gall wasp that forms chemically induced leaf galls on oak trees. It has both bisexual and agamic (parthenogenetic) generations...
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    gall wasps, zealously collecting samples of the species. He traveled widely and took 26 detailed measurements of hundreds of thousands of gall wasps;...
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  • Thumbnail for Andricus quercusflocci
    Andricus quercusflocci is a species of gall wasp in the family Cynipidae. "Andricus quercusflocci Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved...
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    jewel wasp, gold wasp, emerald wasp, ruby wasp and so on (cf. French guĂȘpe de feu, "fire-wasp", and German / Dutch Goldwespe / goudwesp, "gold-wasp"). Members...
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    Cynips quercusfolii (category Gall-inducing insects)
    Cynips quercusfolii, also known as the cherry gall wasp, is a gall wasp species in the genus Cynips and family Cynipidae. The species is important for...
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    "largest number of known species" of gall wasps, at more than 50. The wasps trigger the formation of oak galls in a wide variety of shapes, colors, and...
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