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Willow Pinecone Gall Midge
探検昆虫
Willow Pinecone Gall Midge
Rabdophaga strobiloides
The Willow Pinecone Gall Midge is a tiny insect that makes special galls on willow trees. These galls look like little pinecones and are homes for the midge's babies!
生息地: Forests
外見
The Willow Pinecone Gall Midge is a tiny, delicate fly, typically reddish-brown to dark gray with transparent wings. Its slender body and long legs give it a mosquito-like appearance, though it is much smaller and often overlooked.
界Animalia門Arthropoda綱Insecta目Diptera科Cecidomyiidae属Rabdophaga
カテゴリ
昆虫レア度
Common
危険度
1/5 · 非常に低い
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おもしろい事実
Each gall can contain several midge larvae, all safely hidden inside their leafy home.
Even when willow leaves fall, the midge galls stay on the branches all winter long!
The adult midge is so small, it could easily hide on your fingernail!
The strange 'pinecone' you see on a willow tree is actually a house built by this tiny midge!
特殊能力
能力
Gall Architect
Willow Pinecone Gall Midge can chemically induce willow trees to grow protective 'pinecone' galls, which shelter their developing young.
能力
Willow Whisperer
Willow Pinecone Gall Midge has a precise ability to target specific willow buds, ensuring the gall forms exactly where their larvae need to develop.
能力
Bud Burrower
Willow Pinecone Gall Midge can lay its eggs directly into young willow buds, initiating the gall formation process for its offspring.
サイズと詳細
- 翼開長
- 4-8 mm
- サイズ
- 2-4 mm
- 寿命
- 7-14 日
- 飛行速度
- 0.5 km/h
- 脚の数
- 6
食性と食事
Young midges eat willow tree sap and tissue from inside their special plant home.
年齢による違い: Adult midges do not feed, while larvae consume willow plant tissue within the gall.
主な食物
- Willow bud sap
- Willow stem tissue
- Willow leaf tissue
生態系とのつながり
depends on
White Willow
Salix alba
for gall formation and larval development.
eats
Black-capped Chickadee
Poecile atricapillus
forages on galls to extract larvae.
parasitizes
Gall Midge Parasitoid Wasp
Platygaster saliciperda
larvae developing inside midge larvae.
特徴
別名
まだ別名はありません。
コレクション
安全性
危険度
1/5 · 非常に低い
Always look but don't touch galls; they are homes for tiny insects!
よくある質問
Willow Pinecone Gall Midgeの翼開長は何ですか？
4-8 mm
Willow Pinecone Gall Midgeのサイズは何ですか？
2-4 mm
Willow Pinecone Gall Midgeの寿命は何ですか？
7-14 日
Willow Pinecone Gall Midgeの飛行速度は何ですか？
0.5 km/h
Willow Pinecone Gall Midgeは何を食べますか？
Young midges eat willow tree sap and tissue from inside their special plant home.
Willow Pinecone Gall Midgeは通常どこに生息していますか？
Forests
Willow Pinecone Gall Midgeの脚の数は何ですか？
6
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