Megan Lynch (she/her)
@ml@ecoevo.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

Welp, my thesis was finally published to ProQuest today. The Masters feels real now.

(My Google Scholar profile is updated too. The citations are for the UC Access Now Demandifesto.) #PlantMorphology#Botany#Almond#Horticulture

Screenshot of Google Scholar profile. The user profile photo is of the UC Access Now logo, a parody of the University of California seal with "Let There Be Access" in place of "Let There Be Light". "Megan Lynch Masters student, UC Davis Verified email at ucdavis.edu pomology, plant morphology, botany, disability Title Cited by Year UC Access Now Demandifesto M Lynch Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/disability-equity-and-justice-demands 3 2020 Ontogeny of Almond Vegetative Meristems during Dormancy M Lynch University of California, Davis 2025"
Screenshot of Google Scholar profile. The user profile photo is of the UC Access Now logo, a parody of the University of California seal with "Let There Be Access" in place of "Let There Be Light". "Megan Lynch Masters student, UC Davis Verified email at ucdavis.edu pomology, plant morphology, botany, disability Title Cited by Year UC Access Now Demandifesto M Lynch Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/disability-equity-and-justice-demands 3 2020 Ontogeny of Almond Vegetative Meristems during Dormancy M Lynch University of California, Davis 2025"
Screenshot of Google Scholar profile. The user profile photo is of the UC Access Now logo, a parody of the University of California seal with "Let There Be Access" in place of "Let There Be Light". "Megan Lynch Masters student, UC Davis Verified email at ucdavis.edu pomology, plant morphology, botany, disability Title Cited by Year UC Access Now Demandifesto M Lynch Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/disability-equity-and-justice-demands 3 2020 Ontogeny of Almond Vegetative Meristems during Dormancy M Lynch University of California, Davis 2025"
LionelB
@lionelb@expressional.social  ·  activity timestamp last week

This isa mystery. It is a distorted flower bud on a magnolia. It appears to be a wasp gall but hosting numerous larvae, rather than one. The white spots are odd though.

This is a fully mature specimen tree grown in a huge pot, so I would guess sourced wholesale from Italy.

Galls are normally quite specific but I can't find any reference to a specific wasp.

Magnolia is not a UK native so my presumption is that this is an invasive. I intend to remove the galls and destroy them, as a precaution.

Has anyone seen these before?

#insects #wasps #entomology #horticulture #magnolia