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Abhijit Menon-Sen
Abhijit Menon-Sen
@amenonsen@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

An oak gall I found in a Banj oak tree near home. Once it "hatched", I sent some specimens to ICAR-NBAIR (National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources), who told me that the specimens were Torymus sp. and Cynipoidea.

I didn't even know you could get two kinds of wasps out of a single gall.

#insects #entomology #himalayas

Photo of a glass bottle containing a lumpy green oak gall with some typically oak-looking green leaves (with a pale underside). There are some tiny red wasps inside the bottle, having emerged from the gall.
Photo of a glass bottle containing a lumpy green oak gall with some typically oak-looking green leaves (with a pale underside). There are some tiny red wasps inside the bottle, having emerged from the gall.
Photo of a glass bottle containing a lumpy green oak gall with some typically oak-looking green leaves (with a pale underside). There are some tiny red wasps inside the bottle, having emerged from the gall.
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Charlie Stross
Charlie Stross
@cstross@wandering.shop replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

@amenonsen @quixoticgeek Parasitoid life cycles are WEIRD!

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