We have the #gall week shirt design up. Feel free to jump on the order if you participated or like the design by Chelsea at www.wildlight-studio.com. Order: www.customink.com/g/ygr0-00d3-... #gallweek #entomology #wasp #botany #ecology
Ramsey Sullivan
@ramzsullivan.bsky.social
・Gall enthusiast and community cecidologist ・One of the many admins at gallformers.org ・AK CAPS SSC and Prior USNPS Park Ranger ・Macro photographer ・iNat: @tepary ・naturallyniche.etsy.com ・Opinions my own
Next Gall Week is Sept 5-13! Due to an admin error, this project page was moved so here’s the correct link: www.inaturalist.org/projects/gal...
Gall Week September 2026 new
-- This is the updated project for Gall Week September 2026 -- Welcome to the 10th Gall Week event! During September 5-13, please document galls = structures induced by arthropods, fungi, and sometime...
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An update on currant events in AK: they're turning red. #phenology #botany #plants #berries #foraging #currant #currentevents
Stop everything! Ray Gagne has just finished the second edition of "The Plant-Feeding Gall Midges of North America" and it's freely available here: zenodo.org/records/2137...
The Plant-Feeding Gall Midges of North America
This revision of The Plant-Feeding Gall Midges of North America, originally published in 1989, began as soon as the earlier book was in press. Since then, more than half again as many records of plant...
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New paper from the Martinson Labs! “Rapid ecological speciation in gall inducers” Where we look at the divergence between Aciurina bigeloviae and A. trixa, two sympatric tephritid flies! doi.org/10.1016/j.ym...
Still one of my favorite captures. A #fireweed bud #gall midge, Dasineura epilobii, oviposits on a fireweed bud next to an associated #parasitic #wasp (Platygastridae) also ovipositing on the same bud. In situ single shot photo. #macro #photography #entomology #enemies #frenemies #nature #darktaxa
Our research was recently featured on the German TV game show "Wer weiß denn sowas?" ("Who knows?")! The question covered our #discovery of parasitism by the love vine, Cassytha fuliformis, on the gall wasp, Belonocnema fossoria, published in @currentbiology.bsky.social by @cellpress.bsky.social.
So excited for the @entsocamerica.bsky.social Virtual Symposium, Apr 27-29! There's still time to register for FREE for this international event, with special sessions on IPM, taxonomy, visualization, and biocontrol! 🧪🦋🐝🐜🦟🪰🪳 entsoc.org/membership/b...
One of my favorite activities while at #craft markets or #art shows is to find art of #fireweed, Chamerion angustifolium, and see if the artist unknowingly depicted a flower bud #gall induced by a midge, Dasineura epilobii. Here're some on a fabric print used for a headband by #HappyAK (see arrows).
