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guidingguidaDescription
Smut fungus on big bluestem seed heads/culms
Culm smut of Big Bluestem
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Oak Gall Wasps (Tribe Cynipini)Observer
guidingguidaDescription
Small hidden cell in bur oak bud
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Oak Gall Wasps (Tribe Cynipini)Observer
guidingguidaDescription
Detachable, round, onion like with very thin, pale white papery cover and nipple on the end. Hidden cell in bur oak bud. Collected
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Phytoplasmas (Genus Phytoplasma)Observer
davidenriqueDescription
oooommmggg!!!! another phytoplasma!!! hell yeah!
There were a lot of individual plants affected in the immediate area, so the photos are from multiple individuals. Not all of them had all of the symptoms, but there was definitely some that were stunted, most had bladder-like siliques, virescent petals, and phyllody WITHIN the siliques! crazy!
on Hesperis matronalis. See this paper: https://www.jstor.org/stable/43216089
Unfortunately, it seems that the species involved hasn't/haven't been officially described.
I may have gone slightly overboard with the photos...
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Winged and Once-winged Insects (Subclass Pterygota)Observer
guidingguidaDescription
For host plant. Galls were collected except for the large moth like gall at the tip which was dropped and lost
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goatprairieDescription
Affecting several species of lichens on a young sugar maple along a stream
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Fungi Including Lichens (Kingdom Fungi)Observer
jonnytosteDescription
Somthing on cladonia.
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nealkelsoDescription
On Peltigera. Sciaridae is a placeholder until a further determination can be made. There are lots of presumed mines on soil-substrate Peltigera in the area, seemingly only on wetted portions of the thalli. Edit: last two photos of a larva that came out of a lower (to the ground), inner portion of thallus.
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nealkelsoDescription
Very mine-like at least. I don’t quite see frass, but maybe signs of surface emergence and surface feeding nearby as well? Peltigera lichen: http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/91745514
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guidingguidaDescription
Fungus growing out of a Ash bullet gall midge (Dasineura pellex) found on a green ash
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Butterflies and Moths (Order Lepidoptera)Observer
guidingguidaDescription
Unknown Tag Alder Catkin Borer moth
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Genus AbrothallusObserver
samuelbrinkerDescription
On Pseudevernia consocians (wet).
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Large-flowered Ground-Cherry (Leucophysalis grandiflora)Observer
mikayla_haynesDescription
Greenwood lake fire burn area. Several plants.
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Gall Midges (Subfamily Cecidomyiinae)Observer
guidingguidaDescription
Leaf base gall on blackberry sp
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Gall Midges (Subfamily Cecidomyiinae)Observer
gonodactylusDescription
Pin cherry
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False Russell's Fishscale Lichen (Psora pseudorussellii)Observer
blue543Description
Rare for this part of MN. The extent and viability of the population is uncertain.
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Gall Midges (Subfamily Cecidomyiinae)Observer
gonodactylusDescription
Strange growth on prairie dropseed grass
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Labrador Indian-Paintbrush (Castilleja septentrionalis)Observer
kbeastDescription
Rocky outcrop with butterwort and birds-eye primrose. Several small populations flowering or just past flowering.
