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Leaf galls. This is a list of insect galls arranged into families. This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (January 2023) Coleoptera Beetles
Gall-inducing insects are usually species-specific and sometimes tissue-specific on the plants they gall. Gall-inducing insects include gall wasps, gall midges, gall flies, leaf-miner flies, aphids, scale insects, psyllids, thrips, gall moths, and weevils. [36] Many gall insects remain to be described. Estimates range up to more than 210,000 ...
Cecidomyiidae is a family of flies known as gall midges or gall gnats. As the name implies, the larvae of most gall midges feed within plant tissue, creating abnormal plant growths called galls . Cecidomyiidae are very fragile small insects usually only 2–3 mm (0.079–0.118 in) in length; many are less than 1 mm (0.039 in) long.
Galls induced by insects can be viewed as an extended phenotype of the inducing insect, and gall-inducing insects specialize on their host plants, often to a greater extent than insects that feed on the same plant without creating galls. [2] The gall's form or type depends on what organism is attacking the plant and where the plant is being ...
Gall-inducing insects (359 P) O. ... Pages in category "Galls" The following 43 pages are in this category, out of 43 total. ... Wikipedia® is a registered trademark ...
The gall is an elongate swelling in the stems of brambles; 2–15 cm long and circa 1 cm wide. They are often curved or they cause the stem to bend and can contain up to 200 spherical swellings. Each swelling is a chamber containing a white wasp larva. Larvae overwinter in the gall and adults emerge the following spring.
Rhopalomyia solidaginis, the goldenrod bunch gall, is a species of gall midges, insects in the family Cecidomyiidae. The galls of this species have the following host species of goldenrods: Solidago altissima , Solidago canadensis , and Solidago rugosa .
There are two types of first instar nymphs within galls: one type of nymph is thick-legged and attacks insects introduced into galls. Another type of nymph is normal-legged. [ 10 ] Monomorphic first-instar nymphs of Pemphigus dorocola attack moth larvae, a predator , when it is experimentally introduced to the gall. [ 11 ]