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Tag Archives: Phyllonorycter
Celebrating Silky Willow
Simply not mowing the lawn, and welcoming whatever plants decide to grow in its place, has done wonders for the biodiversity of our yard. But we have also welcomed gifts of native plants from friends, and today I’d like to … Continue reading
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Tagged ant, Caloptilia, Caloptilia stigmatella, cocoon, extrafloral nectary, Formicidae, genitalia, Gracillariidae, Ichneumonidae, larva, leaf mine, leaf roll, moth, Nematinae, parasitism, parasitoid, Phyllonorycter, Phyllonorycter scudderella, Platygastridae, pupa, Salicaceae, Salix, Salix sericea, sawfly, silky willow, Tenthredinidae, Thrinax, Thrinax dubitata, wasp, willow
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Behind Door #1…
When Julia was in high school, she built this little cabin in the woods behind her family’s house in central Ohio: One chilly morning last April, when we stopped there on our way to spending a week exploring the Ozarks, … Continue reading
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Tagged Ariadna bicolor, bee fly, Bombyliidae, Bombylius, Bombylius major, Bourletiella hortensis, Collembola, Diptera, egg sac, fly, globular springtail, Gracillariidae, Lepidoptera, moth, Phyllonorycter, Phyllonorycter celtifoliella, Segestriidae, spider, springtail, web
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Green Wasps from a Green Island
Last October I picked up a fallen black cherry (Prunus serotina) leaf from my yard because it had a good example of the “green island” phenomenon I’ve written about here and here. Apparently, endosymbiotic Wolbachia bacteria in certain leaf-mining larvae … Continue reading
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Tagged black cherry, chalcid, Chrysocharis, Eulophidae, Gracillariidae, green island, Hymenoptera, larva, leaf mine, Lepidoptera, moth, parasitism, Phyllonorycter, Phyllonorycter propinquinella, Prunus, Prunus serotina, pupa, Rosaceae, wasp
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Adventures in Taxonomy
Apparently today is “Taxonomist Appreciation Day,” so I suppose it’s an appropriate time to write a little something about my latest paper, which I discovered had been published right after I clicked “publish” on my previous blog post. I never … Continue reading
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Tagged Annette F. Braun, Arbutus, Arbutus arizonica, Cameraria, Caprifoliaceae, Ericaceae, Fagaceae, Gracillariidae, honeysuckle, Lepidoptera, Lonicera, madrone, moth, Notholithocarpus, oak, Phyllonorycter, Quercus, Quercus hypoleucoides, snowberry, Symphoricarpos, tanoak
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Sharing the Fruit Trees
Periodically I am asked how to get rid of some bug or another. If I am giving a public talk, I want to reply, “have you not been paying attention to anything I’ve said for the past hour?” If the … Continue reading
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Tagged Acronicta, Acronicta radcliffei, apple, BioBlitz, black cherry, Braconidae, Callosamia promethea, caterpillar, cherry, cocoon, Datana, Eulophidae, Gracillariidae, Hymenoptera, hyperparasitoid, larva, leaf mine, Lepidoptera, Malus pumila, Microgastrinae, moth, Noctuidae, Notodontidae, parasitism, parasitoid, persimmon, Pholetesor, Phyllonorycter, plum, Prunus, Prunus serotina, Saturniidae, Schizura, Schizura concinna, Schizura unicornis, wasp
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Moths From A Willow Leaf
Over the past few days, a break in fieldwork has given me a chance to start catching up on going through my photos from this year—I’m exactly five months behind at the moment. On March 19 I finally got to … Continue reading
Northwestern Cherry Miners
Amazingly, I managed to finish catching up on sorting my backlog of tens of thousands of photos before the end of 2013. The next round of sorting involves my hundreds of actual reared insect specimens. I already got all my … Continue reading
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Tagged Agromyzidae, chalcid, Diptera, Eulophidae, Gracillariidae, leaf mine, moth, parasitoid, Phyllonorycter, Prunus, Rosaceae, wasp
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Dill Moths (and others)
On Tuesday I noticed webbing at the tops of some dill plants in the garden, with moth pupae suspended within. Most webs had a single pupa, but this one had three: Investigating further, I saw that the developing seeds on … Continue reading
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Tagged Acer, Acer saccharum, American chestnut, Apiaceae, Betula, Betula populifolia, birch, Cameraria, Castanea dentata, chestnut oak, Depressaria depressana, dill, Elachista, Elachistidae, Elymus, Elymus repens, Erebidae, evening primrose, Gracillariidae, gray birch, Haploa, Haploa clymene, leaf mine, maple, Mompha, moth, Nepticulidae, oak, Oenothera, Oenothera pilosella, Parornix, parsley family, Phyllonorycter, pin oak, pupa, quackgrass, Quercus, Quercus palustris, Quercus prinus, Quercus rubra, red oak, Stigmella, sugar maple, web
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Microhymenopterists Wanted
This “underside tentiform” mine in a hazelnut leaf was made by a larva of the moth Phyllonorycter intermixta (Gracillariidae). As seems to be the case more often than not with leaf mines, what emerged from it was not the insect … Continue reading
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Tagged Bethylidae, Betulaceae, Corylus, Gracillariidae, hazelnut, leaf mine, Nantucket, parasitoid, Phyllonorycter, Phyllonorycter intermixta, wasp
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