Diverse recent studies have further enriched the taxonomic and phylogenetic framework of gall wasps. A comprehensive review of inquiline oak gall wasps provided an updated account of the New World ...

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

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Your device does not support the audio. Does your pin oak look like it’s breaking out in little bumps? Those odd, round growths are called twig galls, and they’re more than just a cosmetic ...

New scientific research confirms Irish provenance of manuscripts on loan from Switzerland, returning to Ireland for the first ...

The nests, also called oak galls, are formed when a gall wasp lays eggs in a tree’s leaf buds as a home for the larva to develop. The chemical substance introduced by wasps to make the galls is what ...

A Sligo student has featured in a landmark exhibition at the National Museum of Ireland, Kildare Street. Words on the Wave: Ireland and St. Gallen in Early Medieval Europe opened last Thursday and ...

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Galls are bulbous outgrowths on some plants that are produced as a result of an insect releasing a substance through their epidermis. The move is intentional—after releasing the substance, the ...