Parasitic insects may also prey on the gall creators. All these predators help keep the galls from becoming too prolific. Galls rarely cause significant damage to the host plants, so the next time ...

Galls are abnormal growths on a part of the plant. They can be caused by bacteria, insects, mites and fungi. They can be on any part of a plant and are the overgrowth of plant tissue in response ...

A gall is an abnormal growth or swelling of a plant caused by hormones released from insects, mites, bacteria ... This mass then either grows around the feeding damage or surrounds the egg. Once ...

Chelsea Harbach, plant disease diagnostician at Iowa State University’s Plant and Insect Diagnostic Clinic, gives tips on how to protect your garden from diseases this season. To further grow ...

Galls are outgrowths induced on plants by other organisms. In some instances, they form when parasitic insects like midges, moths and wasps release substances that prompt the plant to produce more ...

A team of ecologists and entomologists affiliated with several institutions in Brazil, working with a colleague from Mexico, ...

The ancient Eucalyptus plants appeared to be a popular food source. The researchers identified multiple insect damage types, ...

One of these galls is enlarged to show the larva ... Labandeira and his colleagues examined numerous insect damage types from 134 plant assemblages spanning the last 305 million years of Earth ...