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Andricus grossulariae is a gall wasp species inducing agamic acorn cup galls on oak tree acorn cups and sexual phase galls on catkins. [1] Synonyms include Andricus fructuum (Trotter, 1899), Andricus gemellus (Belizin & Maisuradze, 1961), Andricus intermedius (Tavares, 1922), Andricus mayri (Wachtl, 1879) and Cynips panteli (Kieffer, 1897).
Leaves may begin to shed in late winter, or when new leaves emerge in spring. [7] Fruit: oblong acorn that is 1 ⁄ 2 to 1 in long. Acorns have bowl-shaped caps that cover one third of the nut. Acorns usually mature in autumn. The quantity of acorns produced can vary year to year, producing about 32,000 acorns one year and very few the next.
Curculio larva emerging from Chinese chestnut acorn Curculio sayi. Curculio is a genus of weevils belonging the family Curculionidae and subfamily Curculioninae. [1] [2] Members of the genus are commonly referred to as acorn weevils or nut weevils as they infest the seeds of trees such as oaks and hickories. The adult female weevil bores a tiny ...
Abscission (from Latin ab- 'away' and scindere 'to cut') is the shedding of various parts of an organism, such as a plant dropping a leaf, fruit, flower, or seed. In zoology , abscission is the intentional shedding of a body part, such as the shedding of a claw , husk, or the autotomy of a tail to evade a predator.
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Curculio glandium eggs are deposited in acorns by the adult weevil chewing channels into the fruit. The eggs are then released using an ovipositor, a long, narrow organ featured in female weevils. [2] These do not reach the acorn's embryo and are healed by the plant, sealing the holes and protecting the eggs from parasites.
Quercus palustris, also called pin oak, [4] swamp oak, or Spanish oak, [5] is a tree in the red oak section (Quercus sect. Lobatae) of the genus Quercus.Pin oak is one of the most commonly used landscaping oaks in its native range due to its ease of transplant, relatively fast growth, and pollution tolerance.
Quercus turbinella is a shrub growing 2–5 metres (6 + 1 ⁄ 2 – 16 + 1 ⁄ 2 feet) in height but sometimes becoming treelike and exceeding 6 m (20 ft). The branches are gray or brown, the twigs often coated in short woolly fibers when young and becoming scaly with age.