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Leaf Curl Fungi (Genus Taphrina)Observer
annieliveoakDescription
Oddly shaped soft galls on wild plum. Many seen and no two were alike. Near stream and boat launch area. Clearwater area. Plum shown in last photo.
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Gall Midges (Subfamily Cecidomyiinae)Observer
khashagenDescription
Carex blanda?
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Tribe EucosminiObserver
royaltylerDescription
appeared as a black moth. Patterns were not visible without the flash
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Calypogeia neogaeaObserver
abelkinserDescription
I have used Eckel's treatment of Calypogeia in BFNA to key this observation. https://www.mobot.org/plantscience/bfna/V3/Calypogeiaceae.htm
I have included microscope pics of underleaves to help confirm or correct my ID.
I've copied a discussion from Eckel's treatment that describes the underleaves.
"The lateral leaves of C. neogaea are longer than broad (narrowly ovate) with a subacute to acute, sometimes bidentate apex, which separates the species from C. muelleriana and C. azurea, which have typically subcordate leaves, wider than long, with a more bluntly if narrowly rounded apex. The underleaves are distinct from all congeners in the underleaf lobes widely and the deepest lobed (midline from base of sinus to rhizoid-initial area in a very short series of 1--2 (--3) cells); they have rounded-acute, divergent lobes with lateral teeth or angulations high on the lateral margins. Examination of the youngest stems may best reveal the characters of C. neogaea.
In C. muelleriana, with which C. neogaea is vexingly confused, the underleaves are only divided 1/3--1/2 their length, with a longer series of (3--)4--6(--7) cells, with their lobes and sinus obtuse-rounded. The underleaves of C. muelleriana are 2.2--2.5(--3) x wider than the stem, showing their mostly entire margins clearly, with strong decurrencies, whereas those of C. neogaea are usually smaller, narrower, usually only 1--1.8 x wider than the stem or sometimes to 2.5 x in robust specimens, but clearly displaying distinctive acute lobes and lateral marginal angulations with decurrencies none or slight. Underleaves of C. muelleriana are suborbicular, but in C. neogaea they are narrow and strongly transverse (wider than long), sometimes reduced to a mere, highly ornate fingernail-shaving."
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Insects (Class Insecta)Observer
safronDescription
On planted Corylus americana. The plant had several normal catkins but then these odd ones. Is it some sort of gall?
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Great Purple Hairstreak (Atlides halesus)Observer
alamb42Description
Wild eggshells found on some Mistletoe. The plant was on the ground under a pecan tree. We had some bad thunderstorms recently.
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Genus MomphaObserver
heteromyidDescription
The gall. Growing on Oenothera sp.
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Genus CalycomyzaObserver
joemdoDescription
On Mikania scandens
Seen while completing plant monitoring with Steve Woodmansee in the Hole-in-the-Donut, Restoration Area 2009 East in Everglades National Park.
All of my observations from today: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?on=2024-01-02&order=asc&order_by=observed_on&place_id=any&user_id=joemdo
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Family PhysaraceaeObserver
jamestdoucetDescription
I'm going to guess that this is a fungi being devoured by a slime mold
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Ash Leaf Spot (Mycosphaerella fraxinicola)Observer
annieliveoakDescription
spots on Fraxinus (ash). No poison use in the vicinity. Thistlewaite WMA
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Bonesets (Genus Eupatorium)Observer
pttrsnDescription
Seems like serotinum, but the leaves seem too sessile and so much serration to margin
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Aceria pallidaObserver
annieliveoakDescription
Galls on Christmas berry, Lycium carolinianum. Nature Preserve. Grand Isle
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Cypress Flower Gall Midge (Taxodiomyia cupressi)Observer
isaac-mDescription
I don't know if this ID is right?
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Genus NeolasiopteraObserver
amberenergyDescription
On Eupatorium capillifolium.
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Gall and Rust Mites (Family Eriophyidae)Observer
amberenergyDescription
On Pluchea camphorata. Galls? Extreme drought + leafhopper damage? Virus? It affected all of the Camphor-weed in that area as well as a couple of other species of plants.
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Genus MarmaraObserver
ashley_bradfordDescription
On Passiflora incarnata fruit. I’ve got the fruit and am watching the progress. Initial photos were at 12:36 pm; the close-up was at 5:34 pm.
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Gall and Forest Midges (Family Cecidomyiidae)Observer
amberenergyDescription
On Mimulus alatus, Sharpwing Monkeyflower
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Ash Yellows Phytoplasma (Phytoplasma fraxini)Observer
kent_ozmentDescription
On green ash
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Life (Life)Observer
brianwilliams1Description
Record is for the growths (galls?) visible on the plant.
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Life (Life)Observer
kent_ozmentDescription
Black spots on sweetgum leaves (feeding damage, fungus, something else?)
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Genus CerocatusObserver
bradmoonDescription
Cerocatus hardyi? For comparisons, see
https://bugguide.net/node/view/1297644 and https://bugguide.net/node/view/1231782
Also see https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/82985704
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Genus PseudomonasObserver
annieliveoakDescription
On Ambrosia artemisiifolia. Found during Catahoula NWR and vicinity butterfly count.
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Elderberry Gall Midge (Schizomyia umbellicola)Observer
annieliveoakDescription
Don't ask me how many elderberry plants I inspected in multiple locations. Doesn't appear to be common. Last photo shows the gall that I opened. Exit hole visible in photo series. Museum complex area in town of Opelousas.
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Genus EmpicorisObserver
vanremsenDescription
specimen for ANSP 22:17
Distance between threads = 0.6 mm
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Genus TetraneuraObserver
annieliveoakDescription
On water elm, Planera aquatica. Edge of bayou.
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Genus TetraneuraObserver
cynodonDescription
Galls on Planera aquatica.
Not sure if insect or mite or whatnot so I'm starting at Arthropoda...
Observation for the plant:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/152314425
I went back to this exact same spot to get some galls to cut open and made a sister post to this observation, see here: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/157798884
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Water Elm (Planera aquatica)Observer
cynodonDescription
In standing water along boardwalk path in bottomland hardwood forest adjacent to lake.
See fruits in second photo. Not in the genus Ulmus as these fruits are nutlike and globular which instead indicates Planera. Planera aquatica is the only species within this genus in LA. Going by the key to Ulmaceae in the 2022 Flora of LA by Weakley.
Observation for the galls:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/152322171
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Rust Fungi (Order Pucciniales)Observer
kent_ozmentDescription
Rusty spots on greenbrier
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Macroderma curtisiiObserver
davidenriqueDescription
On Ilex opaca (prev obs)
Some different spots were also found on the leaves, I think they're a different species (next obs)
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Southern Twayblade (Neottia bifolia)Observer
jeffwilson2Description
Yellow variant. Farther up the hill from bottoms than I expected as well
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Genus NeolasiopteraObserver
amberenergyDescription
Large gall on Packera glabella.
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Genus MarmaraObserver
wilpersmDescription
Sign of stem mining insect larva on Pennsylvania Blackberry. This looks like a "subcuticular mine" in Eisman and Charney's system (Tracks and Sign, 2010, pp. 406-407). Only this insect genus is discussed, though no examples from Rubus are given, so this is a guess.
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Fungi Including Lichens (Kingdom Fungi)Observer
kent_ozmentDescription
Tiny rusty bumps on needle of loblolly pine. Discoloration in underlying needle.
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Lecanosticta acicolaObserver
kent_ozmentDescription
Something affecting loblolly pine (Pinus taeda) needles.
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Cherubic Poplar Petiole-gall Aphid (Pemphigus obesinymphae)Observer
kent_ozmentDescription
On cottonwood leaf petiole
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Gall Midges (Subfamily Cecidomyiinae)Observer
kemperDescription
Gall was empty. From Ageratina altissima
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Subtribe MesosteninaObserver
jonathanclarkPlace
Catahoula Parish, LA, USA -- Sicily Island Hills (near Rock Falls Nature Trail on JC "Sonny" Gilbert WMA) (Google, OSM)Description
Sicily Island Hills
