http://www.whatsthatbug.com/2010/03/09/unknown-galls-on-sagebrush/ Are we experts yet? Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:43:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.whatsthatbug.com/2010/03/09/unknown-galls-on-sagebrush/comment-page-1/#comment-33224 Charley Eiseman Mon, 29 Mar 2010 03:06:50 +0000 http://www.whatsthatbug.com/?p=23762#comment-33224 I just looked in that book--which not only has nice dichotomous keys but is very well illustrated--and this is a good match for the gall of Rhopalomyia medusa. A fitting name, I think! (The wool sower gall, incidentally, is only found on oak.) I just looked in that book–which not only has nice dichotomous keys but is very well illustrated–and this is a good match for the gall of Rhopalomyia medusa. A fitting name, I think! (The wool sower gall, incidentally, is only found on oak.)

]]> http://www.whatsthatbug.com/2010/03/09/unknown-galls-on-sagebrush/comment-page-1/#comment-31923 Aariq Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:44:34 +0000 http://www.whatsthatbug.com/?p=23762#comment-31923 That certainly looks like a cecidomyiid gall to me. If it is, then you can probably ID it pretty easily using Gagné's 1989 book, The Plant-Feeding Gall Midges of North America. Galls are separated by host plant, and then have nice dichotomous keys. I just returned the book to the library or I'd do my best to ID it myself. That certainly looks like a cecidomyiid gall to me. If it is, then you can probably ID it pretty easily using Gagné’s 1989 book, The Plant-Feeding Gall Midges of North America. Galls are separated by host plant, and then have nice dichotomous keys. I just returned the book to the library or I’d do my best to ID it myself.

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