Acari: Eriophyoidea - gall mite Cecidophyopsis psilaspis Yew Big Bud Mite Photographs on Taxus baccata, Yew Host: Taxus baccata Enlarged bud galls containing many whitish mites, usually in leaf axils, the galls 3-10mm long, inner leaves fleshy and distorted. Galls contain several generations with the adults over-wintering in old galls. Also occurs as an iniquiline in galls of Taxomyia taxi

Cecidophyopsis psilaspis, Yew Big Bud Mite
Lytchett Minster, Dorset. August 2017