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Oak Gall

DateSun 2011-12-25

An oak apple gall with ants.  This gall contains male and female larvae of the sexual generation of the wasp Biorhiza pallida (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae).

Photo taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading University grounds, Reading, UK, on 2010-05-18.

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