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Oak Gall

Photo by Latimeria
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Field Notes

Description:

About the size of a ping pong ball, looks very papery. Is mostly brown, with small spots of black, very wrinkly. On the inside, there is a small dark solid..ball? in the middle, with thin tan tubes radiating to the edge of the sphere.

Habitat:

Forest

Notes:

I'm unsure of which oak species the tree is, but photos of the leaves can be found here: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/8303100. Found at Barbara A. Beiser Field Station.

Species ID Suggestions

Larger Empty Oak Apple Wasp gall

Amphibolips quercusinanis

Comments (2)

This was made by a type of wasp! I love how the insides of these galls look.

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