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🐝 Ants, Bees & Wasps

Large Oak Cynipid

Cynips quercusfolii

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About

A gall wasp that induces cherry-sized galls on the undersides of oak leaves. The galls turn from green to red as they mature in autumn.

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Did You Know?

The colorful galls were historically known as 'oak cherries' and were sometimes mistaken for real fruit by children.