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• n  small solitary wasp that produces galls on oaks and other plants

• gall wasp
• gallfly
• cynipid gall wasp

News & Articles

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• Garden Notes : Letting go of ailing black oaks
  As many Islanders have become aware, certain black oaks, Quercus velutina, are hosting a tiny insect that is proving to be highly destructive to numbers of these trees. The insect doing the damage is a tiny cynipid wasp, Bassettia ceropteroides.
  Oct. 2, 2013 - The Martha's Vineyard Times