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 ...

You could spot one or two, then dozens around the same tree. Oak galls are the result of gall wasps. Inside the galls are the insect's eggs and larvae. When the eggs are first laid, the galls will ...

A new wasp species was discovered on Rice University’s campus in Houston. Photo by Siyi Zhou via Unsplash A student on a Texas university campus made a unique discovery — a creature with a ...

or tumorlike growths created by the gall wasp Neuroterus bussae found on southern live oak leaves. The galls serve as microhabitats within which larvae feed, develop and pupate. The research team ...

You may be surprised by the answer! Have you ever found a woody ball like this under an oak tree? Credit: Nathalie Roy Once the little parasitic wasp reaches maturity, it burrows its way out of the ...

The balls taking space on the trees are eggs of Gall Wasps. Gall wasps are a small breed of wasps that lay their eggs in Oak and Pecan trees. Their eggs grow into the tree, leaving a hard capsule ...

Jumping oak galls are caused by a very tiny, native, stingless wasp (Neuroterus sp.) which lays eggs in leaf buds. As the leaf develops, pinhead-sized galls, also referred to as abnormal plant ...

The photo I received (and is pictured here) is a woolly oak gall, stimulated by the wool sower gall wasp. This small wasp (1/8” long) is harmless to people, only lays eggs on white oak branches ...