Seeing a pine pollen cone, oak catkin or sower gall once each year is enough to continue to marvel at their beauty, unique ...

Does your pin oak look like it’s breaking out in little bumps Those odd, round growths are called twig galls, and they’re ...

A team of ecologists and entomologists affiliated with several institutions in Brazil, working with a colleague from Mexico, ...

INSECTS do not usually give us humans too much concern. However, if one studies even a tiny bit of natural history topics ...

And there are some unimaginably complicated life stories. Tiny gall wasps lay an egg or eggs on a plant’s shoots or leaves. The plant is induced to produce a distinctively shaped protective ...

Gall wasps are a native Aussie insect that originate from northern NSW and Queensland but are now established in many Perth suburbs after successfully spreading across the country, with the pest ...

Twenty-two new species of gall wasps have been identified and named, thanks to new research. The study nearly doubles the number of known species in this genus of wasps. Twenty-two new species of ...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Twenty-two new species of gall wasps have been identified and named for the first time, thanks to new research led by a Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences ...

The wasps come out of a “microhabitat” of “tumorlike growths” made by a gall wasp species that lives on oak leaves on the campus, according to the news release. Researchers collected the ...