For context i am an enthusiastic amateur. Recently I’ve been into observing Casuarina glauca galls. There’s one type of gall ( Selitrichodes) for which there is only one observation aside from my observations. And no-one has confirmed any of my Selitrichodes observations yet. Yet they seem locally …

Hang in there! Better yet, try to enjoy the knowledge that biodiversity is so vast that we each could get lost in our own little corner of it if we wanted to. Only a handfull of iNat users have taken more than a few observations of C.glauca, so I’m guessing you are indeed the only one into their gal…

I live in a village in Central Botswana and share your fascination with galls. It’s great when after sometimes after 2 years I get an ID from another gall enthusiast. There is so much to be discovered especially further north in Africa. Galling with iNaturalist is so exciting !

I am very lucky that here in North America there is a very active iNaturalist project, Galls of North America . I have learned a great deal about galls from the people who are active in that traditional project. I see that you’re starting a project on the galls of Casuarina - great! You might even co…

Thread title edit to match your and many others’ enthusiasm: “The galls are making me CRAZY EAGER TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THEM” [image] vavilovian_mimic: Can these galls really be so overlooked? As someone without access to the resources a professional might have i’m not sure there’s much more i c…

[image] vavilovian_mimic: really be so overlooked? Hi! Can confirm this is a very widespread pattern, Dryocosmus minusculus is common-ish here in California but there are only 5 research papers about it on Google Scholar (and a significant fraction of them only mention it in passing). Further…

[image] dlevitis: And don’t be afraid to discover new things. With things like galls, some people end up looking for the expert in their niche until they realize they’ve become that expert. Which is nice, but it doesn’t get confirming IDs. Here’s one of mine that comes to mind based on the th…

Thank you so much for the generous encouragment, this is just what I needed to hear. I’m feeling more sane now. I quite recently discovered the Australian galls project and have been eagerly contributing. I admit I have been a little shy about tagging experts, I’ll give that a go. Thank you for th…

I’m in Australia and we do have an excellent general galls project to which i’ve become an enthusiastic contributor https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/australian-galls . Thanks for the project encouragement, i’m hoping it may inspire others to look for glauca galls. Today i’m going to read through…

Wow, if that can happen in California i guess the situation here is not so suprising!

Great edit : ) Thanks for the encouragement!

The galls are making me crazy

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The galls are making me crazy

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