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Title: What's this?
Post by: Sketty on August 28, 2005, 12:28:02

Can anybody tell me what this is? It's growing on the stem of a wild rose. :-\

(http://www.thepixplace.com/is44114.jpg)

(http://www.thepixplace.com/is44115.jpg)

And no, it's not a furball the cat coughed up as somebody suggested! ::)

Title: Re: What's this?
Post by: redimp on August 28, 2005, 13:30:35

See here:

http://www.allotments4all.co.uk/yabbse/index.php/topic,12247.0.html

Title: Re: What's this?
Post by: Sketty on August 28, 2005, 14:13:18

Brilliant - Thanks for that. ;D

Title: Re: What's this?
Post by: dotCompost on August 28, 2005, 15:52:25

Wow - how interesting :D :D :D

Title: Re: What's this?
Post by: LesH on August 29, 2005, 07:51:15

Hi Sketty, The old country name is Robin's pin cushion. In May
the female of the wasp Diplolepis rosae lays its eggs in unopened leaf buds, your photo is the result. The larvae stay inside the gall through the winter and hatch out next May. LesH

Title: Re: What's this?
Post by: Gardengirl on August 29, 2005, 17:22:00

That takes me back to my childhood when I used to see quite alot of them along the country lanes on the wild roses. Haven't seen one for years - thanks for that :)

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