Cynips divisa, Pea Gall Wasp Hymenoptera: Cynipidae - gall wasp
Cynips divisa
Red Pea Gall


Agamic generation (Pea Gall) - photographs on Quercus, Oak

Hosts:
Agamic and sexual generations on Q. frainetto, petraea, pubescens, robur

Agamic - occurs on underside of leaves. A hard, thick-walled gall with small inner chamber. Iniquiline larvae often present in the gall walls

Sexual - either small, spindle-shaped galls attached to end of a vein at the leaf margin or warty catkin galls to 6mm long, barrel shaped.


Cynips divisa, Pea Gall Wasp

Cynips divisa, Pea Gall Wasp

Cynips divisa, Pea Gall Wasp
Cynips divisa, Pea Gall Wasp
Broadstone, Dorset. October 2017

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