Gall Week 2022

Welcome to the 2nd Gall Week event! Please join us and document galls wherever you are at. Please photograph galls between Saturday, Sept. 3rd and Sunday, Sept. 11th. In order to contribute to our project, please join the project, and add your observations manually. You can also do it in bulk if you upload it on your desktop.
From our 2021 project:
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 view some of the 6,500 observations we've recorded last year - https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/gall-week-2021-9e58d299-60ec-4b10-af61-11ec0ab46974
Tag all your friends, and have fun! less ↑