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Contarinia tiliarum (Kieffer) (a gall midge)

Date: 19 June 1999
Location: North Wiltshire, England
State: Larva
Record Summary: Galls on Large Leaved Lime
Associated organism: on galled this year's twigs, petioles, terminal buds, flower buds, leaf midrib of Tilia platyphyllos
Identification Notes: Larvae egg-yellow, jumping.
Galls on this year's twigs, petioles, terminal buds, flower buds, leaf midrib etc.

Images etc

magnified photograph Gall LS showing larva 45 Kb 427 by 341 pixels
magnified photograph Gall LS showing larvae 44 Kb 427 by 341 pixels
magnified photograph Gall LS showing larvae 45 Kb 427 by 341 pixels
magnified photograph Gall on terminal bud - close-up 500 by 380 pixels
magnified photograph Galled flower buds 8 Kb 212 by 226 pixels
magnified photograph Galled flower buds 10 Kb 208 by 229 pixels
magnified photograph Galls on leaf midrib - close-up 41 Kb 490 by 329 pixels
magnified photograph Galls on petiole and leaf midrib - close-up 20 Kb 380 by 193 pixels
magnified photograph Galls on petiole and leaf midrib - underside - close-up 500 by 128 pixels
magnified photograph Galls on petiole and terminal bud - close-up 22 Kb 459 by 319 pixels
magnified photograph Galls on petioles - close-up 14 Kb 339 by 317 pixels
magnified photograph Galls on petioles - close-up 500 by 464 pixels
magnified photograph Galls on petioles - growing in sunshine - upperside 500 by 355 pixels
magnified photograph Leaf spray with galls on twig, petiole, terminal bud and leaf midrib - upperside 500 by 373 pixels
magnified photograph Leaf spray with galls on twig, petiole, terminal bud and leaf midrib - underside 500 by 328 pixels

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