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Identification history
| Eucalyptus insect gall | 3 Nov 2023 | Tapirlord | ||
| Eucalyptus dives | 2 Nov 2023 | CarbonAI | ||
| Unidentified | 2 Nov 2023 | sangio7 |
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Updated with new images from a couple of days later and a disected gall showing the porous, sticky inside of the gumnut-imitating part and the smaller empty woody part that attaches the gall to the leaf.
7 comments
Tapirlord
wrote:
2 Nov 2023
The red structures are galls of some description. The tree is *probably E.blakelyi*.
sangio7
wrote:
2 Nov 2023
Thanks Ciaran. I thought it looked like E, blakelyi but was totally confused by the apparent fruiting bodies. Very attractive though.
sangio7
wrote:
3 Nov 2023
I was wondering overnight about how to report it as a gall instead of a tree so that it attracts the attention of the insect specialists. If you can change it from tree to insect gall that would be great. It's a very interesting looking structure appearing (and I'm way out of my depth here) to be trying to attract other insects?
Tapirlord
wrote:
3 Nov 2023
I'm way out my depth as well! We will have to see what the insect folk say :).
sangio7
wrote:
12 Nov 2023
A closer inspection of the location on 4th November showed several pairs of these galls on the same and adjacent young E. blakelyi saplings, as well as several incipient galls, ie only the part that attaches the gum-nut-imitating part to the leaf was formed. The same trees had a couple of other types of galls including that posted in my sighting 4526309 and a type matching sighting 4525327.
RogerF
wrote:
12 Nov 2023
I wonder if a bird such as a Pardalote has pecked open the gall to remove the occupant, possibly a fat psyllid?
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- 1 - 3 Abundance
- 1 Nov 2023 09:20 AM Recorded on
- sangio7 Recorded by
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