Bugs that cause interesting defects.

[mdvaden]

Anyone like the defects that some bugs do to trees?

 

I was browsing some of my older photos tonight, and noticed a bladder mite pic for Norway maple.

 

The red bumps look interesting to me, and if I had a tree with them, I'd probably prefer to have the mites just for the added color.

[Amelanchier]

Nice MD,

 

Those galls (we call them nail galls) are quite common round this way. Mostly on Lime (Tilia spp. ) caused by Eriophyes tiliae. I'd say that host was what we would call Sycamore (Acer psuedoplatanus), which would make the gall mite Aceria macrorhynchus ; is that right??

Edited December 5, 2008 by Amelanchier