Dasineura fraxini Diptera: Cecidomyiidae - gall midge
Dasineura fraxini

Photographs on Fraxinus excelsior, Ash

Hosts:
Fraxinus angustifolia, excelsior, ornus

One or many swollen pouches are formed on the underside of the main leaf vein, each pouch containing a single yellow larva. Usually one generation a year, the pupae hibernating in the soil.




Dasineura fraxini

Dasineura fraxini

Dasineura fraxini

Dasineura fraxini
Dasineura fraxini
Wimborne and Randalls Hill, Dorset. September 2017, June 2018

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