The invasive emerald ash borer beetle has seeped into Oklahoma from the eastern United States. Here's how wasps could help ...

What are parasitoid wasps? Learn about these wasps that have a gruesome but fascinating way of surviving.

When most people think of scientists discovering a new species, they think of long treks and exotic jungles, not a suburban ...

After many kilometres, the chain on my bike comes off next to a majestic oak. The tree becomes Quercus: a friend, a confidant ...

Wool sower galls are created by a wasp, Callirhytis seminator. When they first develop, they are fuzzy, white to whitish-pink, round galls that resemble cotton balls.

Galls form when certain wasps, including species like Kokkocynips decidua and Kokkocynips rileyi, lay their eggs in oak tissues. These growths become shelters where wasp larvae develop.

It was a leaf gall of a very small wasp called translucent oak gall wasp, Amphibolips nubilipennis. In early spring, the female wasp lays her eggs on the underside of newly developing oak leaves.

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The ink is derived from oak gall wasps, which is created after laying their eggs in oak trees. “Da Vinci’s drawings and Van Gogh’s drawings are made with permanent ink that’s induced in the tannins of ...

All those are inked with oak gall ink, which is induced chemically by different species of gall wasps. So if we take the Magna Carta, there are at least three insect species involved in the ...

The gall becomes a shelter for the wasp eggs, providing safety and nourishment to the larvae without harming the tree. You can identify where the adult wasps exit the gall by the small holes on the ...

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.