After spider week, Cal Coast week, and taco day, it is time for Gall Week! Let's start a new tradition, documenting galls on the first week of October. Fall is a great time to go on galling expeditions, when many species have fresh summer/ fall generation on different plant species.
Don't forget to add information about the host plant - as a note, or even better, in the fields: Host and ...more ↓
After spider week, Cal Coast week, and taco day, it is time for Gall Week! Let's start a new tradition, documenting galls on the first week of October. Fall is a great time to go on galling expeditions, when many species have fresh summer/ fall generation on different plant species.
Don't forget to add information about the host plant - as a note, or even better, in the fields: Host and Host plant ID field. You can also link to the host plant observation if you're not sure what it was.
If you've never done this before, you can check what are the best host plants in your area. You can use gall or insect books from your area, websites (such as https://gallformers.org/), podcasts (https://podcast.naturesarchive.com/2021/09/14/galls/), and iNat.
A good way to start is to look at one of the gall projects and see what other people found in your area:
Galls of California -
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/galls-of-california
Galls of North America -
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/galls-of-north-america
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/north-american-galls
Leaf and plant galls -
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/leaf-and-plant-galls
Galls of the Eastern United States - https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/galls-of-the-eastern-united-states
And please add other projects in the comments if I've missed them, and any other suggestions you might have. You can also join the discussion here - https://www.inaturalist.org/journal/merav/56394-gall-week-2021
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created this project on September 15, 2021
Gall Week 2021
