Sighting 4375451
A Gall Midge at Wodonga, VIC
Identification history
| Austroacacidiplosis botrycephalae | 19 Mar 2021 | MichaelMulvaney | ||
| Acacia baileyana | 14 Mar 2021 | KylieWaldon |
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User's notes
What are the red berry looking things on these wattles? Do wattles have fruit? Or is it the eggs of something else?
2 comments
MichaelMulvaney
wrote:
19 Mar 2021
The berry like growths are galls which are wattle growths caused by a midge fly and in which its larvae feed. The wattle looks like being a hybrid between Cootamundra wattle and perhaps Silver Wattle
KylieWaldon
wrote:
20 Mar 2021
THanks Michael. These were young wattles coming up around a very dead wattle tree on the edge of the gully.
Location information
- Coordinates 146.886785-36.172206
- Places Wodonga, VIC
Sighting information
- 20 Abundance
- 14 Mar 2021 10:54 AM Recorded on
- KylieWaldon Recorded by
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Collections
KylieWaldon Albury, Wodonga NatureMapr Austroacacidiplosis botrycephalae Crane flies, midges, mosquitoes & gnats (several families) True flies (Diptera) Insects
Species information
- Austroacacidiplosis botrycephalae Scientific name
- A Gall Midge Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1015.59m Recorded at altitude
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