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Glowing Balls of Ice Had I known this was going to be a species intro I would have taken a better picture. I will get some more tomorrow. The sun was shinning through the hairs covering the seed pods and was to tempting not to take the shot. Creosote bush,Geotagged,Larrea tridentata,Spring,United States Click/tap to enlarge Species introCountry intro

Glowing Balls of Ice

Had I known this was going to be a species intro I would have taken a better picture. I will get some more tomorrow. The sun was shinning through the hairs covering the seed pods and was to tempting not to take the shot.

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  1. View WildFlower's profile
    WildFlower
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    Last year you only posted a photo of the creosote gall midge.
    Gall Midge "Morphing the FLY" The Asphondylia auripila group (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) consists of 15 closely related species of gall-inducing flies which inhabit creosote bush (Zygophyllaceae: Larrea tridentata). They have partitioned the plant ecologically with different gall midge species inhabiting the leaves, stems, buds, and flowers of creosote bush. Each species induces a uniquely shaped gall but the insects are otherwise morphologically very similar and very difficult to tell apart. Their life cycle begins when the female oviposits into the part of the plant which her species prefers, she inserts her egg along with a fungal spore from a mycangia (a small pocket to store fungal spores). A gall forms and the fungal mycelium grows to line the inside of the gall, when the egg hatches the developing larva feeds upon the fungus. Adult emergence is timed with periods of plant growth associated with winter, spring, or summer rain fall. In contrast to many other groups of plant-feeding insects (which form new species through changes to new host plants) the evolution of new species in the A. auripila group seems to be a result of colonizing new parts of the same plant and/or colonization of new seasons of plant growth. Creosote gall midge,Geotagged,Larrea tridentata,Spring,United States
     Posted 8 years ago
    1. View Stephen Philips's profile
      Stephen Philips
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      Awe yes, great recollection. I do remember posting that but did not make the connection to the creosote bush. Posted 8 years ago

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The Creosote bush

"Larrea tridentata" is known as creosote bush and greasewood as a plant, chaparral as a medicinal herb, and as ""gobernadora"" in Mexico, Spanish for "governess," due to its ability to secure more water by inhibiting the growth of nearby plants.

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Uploaded May 3, 2017. Captured May 2, 2017 18:25 in E Britton Way, Tucson, AZ 85739, USA.
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  • Canon EOS 5DS R
  • f/5.0
  • 1/640s
  • ISO200
  • 180mm