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Rose bedeguar gall

Diplolepis rosae

Photo by Meik Meißner
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Description:

Found on Rosa canina (dog rose).

Notes:

It develops as a chemically induced distortion of an unopened leaf axillary or terminal buds mostly on Field Rose (Rosa arvensis) or Dog rose (Rosa canina) shrubs, caused by the parthenogenetic hymenopteran gall wasp Diplolepis rosae. Diplolepis lay up to sixty eggs within each leaf buds (source: wikipedia.org).

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mossyrose gall wasp (Diplolepis rosae (Linnaeus, 1758) Classified by Species 20…, Diplolepis rosae

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