Austroacacidiplosis botrycephalae

A Gall Midge at Wodonga, VIC

Austroacacidiplosis botrycephalae at Wodonga, VIC - 14 Mar 2021 10:54 AM
Austroacacidiplosis botrycephalae at Wodonga, VIC - 14 Mar 2021 10:54 AM
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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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   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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