Saturday, 15 June 2013

Birch galls 2

Pictures from the Hainault website:

     

Aculus leionotus, a sort of uneven blister above, erineum beneath. Looks very like what I saw today.

    

Circular blister on both sides of the leaf. Anisostephus betulinus.

 

Silver birch hemispherical gall. Cecidophyopsis betulae.

     

The hairs of the erineum are described a reddish-brown. However I am seeing tufts of white in a similiar situation, could this be just as it develops? Aculus leionotus. I have also seen this, but both species cannot be A. leionotus.

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