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Jewelweed Gall Midge

Schizomyia impatientis

Photo by chesterbperry
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Description:

Found these galls on some jewelweed only small number of the plants on property have been affected in a localized area. Curiously the larva, in second pic, found inside is same color as the flowers of the host plant.

*update- discovered the identity

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