Tag: Knopper gall
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The complicated sex life of the Knopper gall wasp
Almost three hundred species of insect are associated with the oak tree. And that doesn’t include over 400 species of mites. One of these is a tiny wasp,Ā Andricus quercuscalicis, which lays its eggs in the Spring in the buds of ourĀ native oak tree. This results in a woody growth or gall being formed between the…