Dasineura serrulatae

Family: Cecidomyiidae | Genus: Dasineura
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Color: brown
Texture: bumpy
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Location: bud
Form: abrupt swelling
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The plant-feeding gall midges of North America
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Alnus (alder)
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Enlarged bud...Dasineura serrulatae (Osten Sacken)

Affected buds are 6–12 mm in diameter. Each contains several reddish larvae that drop to the soil in fall...Hosts: A. crispa, A. rugosa, A. serrulata. Distr.: Massachusetts and Ontario to North Carolina

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- Raymond J. Gagne: (1989) The plant-feeding gall midges of North AmericaΒ©


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