Two Species of Oak Leaf Spangles on the Same Tree

e6filmuser

I recently posted some images of Silk Button Spangle Galls (the metallic-looking, doughnut shaped ones). I had found them for the first time and had a few, rather dried out, leaves to work from.

I had occasionally found the Common Spangle Gall (the pale, flattish discs) on the woodland floor. I had never noticed it on leaves on a tree.

Both species are formed by insects.

So I was surprised to find that a squirrel-sown young oak tree in out garden had thousands of both species on the undersides of its leaves. This gave me a superb opportunity to photograph them together and to take high magnification shots of both.

This topic features just low magnification images. The high magnification ones will be uploaded later, in their own topic.

Then stereos are crosseye.

Olympus EM-1, (aperture priority), Olympus 4/3 50mm f2 macro, hand-held.

Harold