Ken Gonyo sent this photo of a sweet, fresh white gall on coastalplain staggerbush (Lyonia fruticosa) at the south Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area. This gall is caused by a fungus and turns red as it matures to be yet another…
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Christmas ornament cecidology
This gorgeous gall was like a Christmas ornament on the south Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area scrub. This gall (or cecidia) on Faey's palafoxia (Palafoxia faeyi) was caused by a gall-making midge (Asphondylia sp.). Note the exit hole below ... A…
Tricolor
Bob Montanaro and I had just sat down on the viewing platform at the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area, when a juvenile tricolor heron (Egretta tricolor) landed on the railing. Bob could not get to his camera bag without disturbing our…
Vivacious viceroy
The cooler weather has brought out lots of butterflies out to play. When Bob Montanaro and I took a walk at the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area to take photographs to use for the upcoming 2015 volunteer stewardship class, we saw…
