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Black Wattle Gall Midge

Dasineura rubiformis

Photo by Mark Ridgway
Published on Project Noah
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Field Notes

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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Comments (3)

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/MichaelS
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.
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.

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