#3614 · 🐝 bees, wasps & ants

Pea Gall Wasp

🇳🇱 Rode erwtengalwesp ·Cynips divisa

🐝 Bees, wasps & ants 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © Anita Sprungk · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Σάββας Ζαφειρίου (Savvas Zafeiriou) · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © migallel · CC BY-SA 4.0
4. © David Adamson · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © jfgodeau · CC BY-SA 4.0
6. © Marco Schmidt · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
7. © migallel · CC BY-SA 4.0
8. © wolff christiane · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The red-pea gall or red currant gall develops as a chemically induced distortion arising from the underside of the mid-rib of a vein on Quercus species and it is attached by a short stalk or peduncle. The red-wart gall is the sexual phase of the same species.

base stats

NL sightings 28iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 1,422iNaturalist 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).