#3574 · 🐝 bees, wasps & ants

Oak Curved-leaf Gall Wasp

🇳🇱 Gordelgalwesp ·Andricus curvator

🐝 Bees, wasps & ants 📍 in the Netherlands

8 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Sepp Schmid · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Gilles San Martin · CC BY-SA 4.0
3. © Dr. Nasser Halaweh · CC BY 4.0
4. © Σάββας Ζαφειρίου (Savvas Zafeiriou) · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Gilles San Martin · CC BY-SA 4.0
6. © Sepp Schmid · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Luis Silva · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
8. © migallel · CC BY-SA 4.0

what is it?

Andricus curvator is a gall wasp which forms chemically induced leaf galls on oak trees and has both agamic and sexual generations. Agamic and sexual generations usually form two distinct galls on oak trees, but in the case of A. curvator there are six galls; the sexual generation usually on the leaf, occasionally in a twig or catkin, and the agamic generation in a bud. The wasp was first described by Theodor Hartig, a German biologist,...

base stats

NL sightings 55iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 1,933iNaturalist observations

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).