Austroacacidiplosis botrycephalae

A Gall Midge at Wodonga, VIC

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Identification history

	Austroacacidiplosis botrycephalae	19 Mar 2021	MichaelMulvaney
	Acacia baileyana	14 Mar 2021	KylieWaldon

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What are the red berry looking things on these wattles? Do wattles have fruit? Or is it the eggs of something else?

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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.

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20 Abundance
14 Mar 2021 10:54 AM Recorded on
KylieWaldon Recorded by
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Insects Crane flies, midges, mosquitoes & gnats (several families) True flies (Diptera) KylieWaldon Albury, Wodonga NatureMapr

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Austroacacidiplosis botrycephalae Scientific name
A Gall Midge Common name
Not Sensitive
Local native
Non-invasive or negligible
Up to 849m Recorded at altitude
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