Size: 1.8mm bl. Hatched from a gall on Scrub Oak, Quercus acutidens (= Quercus berberidifolia). Woods End Wilderness Park, Aliso Viejo, Orange County, CA. 3/30/10. © Peter J. Bryant.

 

Gall Wasp

BOLD Taxon PBCyn11

Hymenoptera: Cynipidae

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Size: 1.8mm bl. Hatched from a gall on Scrub Oak, Quercus acutidens (= Quercus berberidifolia). Woods End Wilderness Park, Aliso Viejo, Orange County, CA. 3/30/10. © Peter J. Bryant.
Gall from which this wasp hatched. 6mm diam, on Scrub Oak, Quercus acutidens (= Quercus berberidifolia). Woods End Wilderness Park, Aliso Viejo, Orange County, CA. 3/30/10. © Peter J. Bryant.
Another wasp from the same gall:

Size: 2.0mm bl. Hatched from a gall on Scrub Oak, Quercus acutidens (= Quercus berberidifolia). Woods End Wilderness Park, Aliso Viejo, Orange County, CA. 3/30/10. © Peter J. Bryant.
Size: 2.0 mm bl. Hatched from a gall on Scrub Oak, Quercus acutidens (= Quercus berberidifolia). Woods End Wilderness Park, Aliso Viejo, Orange County, CA. 3/30/10. © Peter J. Bryant.