Eriophyes salicicola

Family: Eriophyidae | Genus: Eriophyes
Detachable: integral
Color: red, green
Texture:
Abundance: common
Shape: globular
Season: Summer
Related:
Alignment: integral
Walls:
Location: upper leaf, lower leaf, between leaf veins, leaf edge
Form: leaf edge roll, pocket
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Possible Range:i
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Insect galls of Cedar Point and vicinity

Eriophyes salicicola

Phytoptus salicola

Host: Salix longifolia [interior]

Leaf-gall, tiny, globular to irregular, often massed, on either surface of leaf, at times projecting through. .25-3 mm. across. Light green to completely crimson. July. Common.

- PB Sears: (1914) Insect galls of Cedar Point and vicinity©

Reference: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50337404#page/455/mode/1up


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