Eucalyptus stem gall - Wasp gall
Order: Hymenoptera
-37.902, 145.308
Field Notes
Description:
Large woody galls about 50 mm long and 40mm wide seen around branchlets of a eucalytpus tree. The gall surface showed minute circular depressions with a lip around them, like exit holes.
Habitat:
Eucalyptus tree - ? species. In a nature reserve
Notes:
Might be made by a gall wasp. Thanks to Ken Walker for confirming that these are wasp galls. They differ from Apiomorpha (gall inducing scale insects)galls in that they are around the stem and do not protrude from the sides and therefore have no apical orifice.
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