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Gall Wasps

Gall wasps are small wasps (1-8mm) in the family Cynipidae. Their common name comes from the galls they induce on the plants they lay their eggs in. Plant galls are abnormal outgrowths of plant tissues, similar to benign tumors in animals.

The plant galls mostly develop directly after the female wasp lays the eggs within the plant using an ovipoistor. The inducement for the gall formation is largely unknown; discussion speculates as to chemical, mechanical, and viral triggers.

The hatching larvae feed on the tissue of the galls, in which they are otherwise well-protected from external environmental effects. The host plants and the size and shape of the galls are specific to each species, and there are about 1300 species worldwide.

Photos of adult wasps are hard to come by, but below are some of the galls they induce on plants!

Red cone gall wasp:

Photo by kevinhintsa

Spongy oak apple gall wasp:

Photo by crx2aj3

Spined turban gall wasp:

Photo by richardlarson

Acorn plum gall wasp (plus larva inside gall):

Photos by oxalismtp and ahuang17

Spiny leaf gall wasp:

Photo by mileszhang

Mossy rose gall wasp:

Photo by jamigramore

Wool sower gall wasp:

Photo by stacys

Disc gall wasp:

Photo by merav

Hedgehog gall wasp:

Photo by matthew_wills

Striped volcano gall wasp:

Photo by catchang

Silk-button spangle gall wasp:

Photo by ropro

Clustered midrib gall wasp:

Photo by pagophila

Bonus! Newly emerged adult cherry gall wasp showing the gall with exit hole:

Photos by Sally Jennings

[lemonsweet]

New caterpillar discovered called a "bone collector caterpillar" that hides out in spiders nests by disguising itself as dead body parts and then steals all the spider's food when it isn't looking

[a-book-of-creatures]

Spider: another successful day hunting! Surely I will safely enjoy my hard-earned dinner near this pile of dead body parts

The dastardly bone collector:

[4mtns]

NASA just dropped the closest image ever taken of Jupiter.

[michaelnordeman]

Gömmaren nature reserve in Huddinge, Sweden (March 22, 2014).

[only-cat-memes]

[wondertrio]

drew them

[silvergryphonart]

That’s it, that’s distilled to their essence

[bowelfly]

Brother Ignatz trying to get out of dish duty by pretending to be a stand of reeds. again.

[bowelfly]

when its fish night at the monastery

[sandmandaddy69]

[trying-to-bring-joy]

Behold, a dragon.

[jollityfarm]

The really cool thing about hydrangeas is that they can be blue, pink, or purple based primarily on the pH of the soil. A free science experiment in every plant.

Omg this is so cool I didn’t know this! I wonder if I can do this experiment with students

[mooncustafer]

[danskjavlarna]

Source details and larger version.

The hunters and the hunted: vintage hunting imagery.

[yesyoubelonghere]

Access road. (FF)

[plainxte]

I've been thinking about a Terry Pratchett quote, one that went something like, it's better to, something something, than curse the darkness.

Searching for it online brought up "It's better to light a candle than curse the darkness," from Men at Arms. Yeah, I thought. That must have been it. But why do I remember something about a flamethrower? And why does that quote sound so... Tidy? Sweet? Too nice for a Pratchett novel?

It took me a while to find the time to dig through my copy of the book. But here you are:

'Might as well have a bloody king and have done with it!'

The rest of the Night Watch stood looking at their feet in mute embarrassment. Then Carrot said, 'It's better to light a candle than curse the darkness, Captain. That's what they say.'

Okay. That's it all right. But then it continues, on the top of the next page:

'What?' Vimes's sudden rage was like a thunderclap. 'Who says that? When has that ever been true? It's never been true! It's the kind of thing people without power say to make it all seem less bloody awful, but it's just words, it never makes any difference–'

Well. That's Pratchett, all right.

And because it's all about timing, the actual punchline, as it were, only comes thirty or so pages later:

Nobby kept looking back longingly to the fire machine.

Sometimes it's better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.

... Seems apt, today.

[toadschooled]

A very powerful American toad creates ripples in water with his call. [Anaxyrus americanus] [x]

[local-gun-witch]

[lazchance]

the bronze angular jumper (Ligurra latidens) is a jumper with a face that i kinda feel resembles santa. spiders of the Ligurra genus have a flat and squat appearance. the female here has distinctively large and furry palps that gives it the appearance of a beard right below its eyes!

[a-book-of-creatures]

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[nedlittle]

it makes me sad the way cis women are so terrified of and disgusted by their own body hair. and i'm not talking "i have to shave for sensory reasons" i mean i keep seeing videos of women using hair identifier spray on their faces and hands so they can shave the tiniest barely-there bits of peach fuzz that came free with their bodies. hair that serves a purpose and that purpose is cleanliness and protection. i mean when i was in elementary school girls who had barely hit puberty were talking about shaving their arms. i mean full-grown adult women who will have a breakdown if they see two days of stubble on their legs/crotch/ jaw/pits because god forbid you don't look like a perfect plastic barbie doll. god forbid your body that keeps you alive comes with hair that may not be soft and glossy and photogenic. some women are so afraid of having any hair apart from their head and eyebrows that they've uno reversed themselves into six different kinds of gender dysphoria that they can't recognize as such because they're convinced that this unnatural state of highly-groomed capital-informed beauty is how women have always been. you're so scared of looking "gross" or "ugly" or "mannish" that you can't even look at your body in the mirror and recognize what it is. sister you are an ape. why are you so determined to deny your nature.