Today is the day!
It’s the first day of Gall Week! Please start documenting galls. All new observations made between 4/20-28 can be added to our project. Please add the host name if you know it, or record the host plant and link it to the gall observation. You can find more info and tips in our project description and previous journal posts. Let us know if you have any questions!
Merav and the team
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I can't add my gall observations to the project. It isn't listed under Projects (only gives 2023 and earlier events)
It's OK now...I hadn't joined the project so that's why it wasn't listed!
That makes sense - thanks for participating, @major_bombylius!
Hi there - in the Southern hemisphere we call it "autumn."
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@jstarspots - that's why we didn't call it spring gall week this time! I hope it's a good timing for where you're at
@merav I was impressed it at least acknowledged the difference in seasonality (so many projects don't.) But "fall" is one of those "tell me you're an American without telling me you're an American" moments. 🍁
I've do confess I've been a bit busy on the April ebird challenge, but there are heaps of galls popping up in the Australian observations.
What is the best way to ID those - should they be broadly "insects" or "plants" ... or will the Gall experts come via the project to ID them? Heaps of them sit in the limbo/unclassified space.
if they are gall observations they should be identified as the gall inducer - usually insects, but could be other arthropods (mites) or sometimes fungi or other organisms. Unfortunately I can't ID gall observations from Australia...
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