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    (c) cynthiasaleh, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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    (c) Piotr Lukasik, some rights reserved (CC BY)

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    (c) sea-kangaroo, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND)

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    (c) Lina Kaminskaitė, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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    (c) Kathryn Roberts, all rights reserved

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    (c) Frank Vincentz, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)

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Mossy Rose Gall Wasp

Diplolepis rosae

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About

The rose bedeguar gall, Robin's pincushion gall, or moss gall develops as a chemically induced distortion of an unopened leaf axillary or terminal buds, mostly on field rose (Rosa arvensis) or dog rose (Rosa canina) shrubs, caused by the parthenogenetic hymenopteran gall wasp (Diplolepis rosae (Linnaeus, 1758)), previous synonyms are D. bedeguaris, Rhodites rosae or Cynips rosae.

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