Both T alni ss and T occidentalis have been reported in Alaska... not sure which this is.
apparently an unknown fruit gall on oreocarya. Another individual we opened on a different day had a tiny orange "worm" in it
Fungus affecting the fly? the fly is holding onto a chive plant, not sure if that matters.
Gall material collected on 4/15/24 see https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/207699213
and rearing chamber opened 4/23/24, midge was alive and walking around on the Salvia mellifera (Black Sage) material.
Galls with insect larvae of variable size on buds and flowers of Fendler's Meadow-rue.
On Gayophytum. Assuming midges, but could be wrong.
Woods Canyon Trail, Sedona, Red Rock Country, Coconino National Forest, Yavapai County, Arizona
On Betula neoalaskana, tree was cut down so I was able to see leaves in the canopy
First (of a few, I hope) gall former reared from this gall: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/197097097
This observation was divided from # 198452548. The original observation tracks the plant while this new observation tracks the galls that formed on some of the branches.
1 female emerged from one of these galls on tanoak:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/195401835
Collected: 12-27-2023
Emerged: 01-25-2024
(Last 3 photos were taken on Dec 30 when the gall was still fresh)
From galls on willow collected 1 Sept 2021. Placed in refrigerator until mid February 2022. Discovered this fly had emerged 17 March 2022. The vials were fairly humid so the adult flies are in poor shape, quite soft and deteriorate easily when I try to pick them up. I moved them to alcohol to hopefully stop the deterioration.
Example leaf gall from same willow bush: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/93307708
Insect on Salix sp. with Melampsora rust fungi. It appeared to be eating the rust.
don't remember/recognize the host. Some herbaceous asteraceae I guess
Observation referring to the needle gall, host photos included for reference
Found on the grass species Hilaria jamesii. The galls look like onions
Host: Prosopis velutina. Guess of ID is based on other Contarinia species producing galls in the junction of leaflet pairs and the rachis of leguminous trees.
Another tree with the stem bud galls. On willow. Cc @tepary @awenninger
Oligotrophus betheli galls, per Russo's Plant Galls of the Western United States (2021) p. 80 and Gallformers.org https://www.gallformers.org/gall/1750
On Juniperus occidentalis (Western Juniper)
Gall on willow stem? Cc @tepary. Rabdophaga rigidae, the willow beaked-gall midge?
Collected: 09-04-2023
Dissected: 09-07-2023
Field observation: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/181851193
Preserved in EtOH for Cynipini Larval Sequencing Project
Rubber Rabbitbrush; note the conversation associated with https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/153190620. The gall above is the same or similar but on Rabbitbrush, not goldenbush
Not sure on host plant - Oreocarya sp.?
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Edit: Host plant is Oreocarya sp., likely O. flava