Plant Galls of Britain & Irelands Dagbok

A big thank you to @astrapia for spotting some organisms and groups of organisms missing from the project.

I've added the following groups:

• All members of the Psylloidea superfamily. Previously I just looked for Psyllidae and Triozidae, but this missed out Livia and Psyllopsis which are now in Lividae.
• Scale insects: Chinapsis salicis and the Asterodiapsis oak scales
• Hexomyia and Euhexomyia twig-galler moths
• Claviceps ergot fungi
• Chlrops flies
• Tetramesa, gall wasps on grasses (in the superfamily Chalcidoidea not Cynipoidea).

I'm aware that no weevils are currently included in the scope. I'll review how to do this and add them shortly.

Three genera of willow galling sawflies, Pontania, Eupontania and Phyllocolpa, are now all subsumed in Euura, which will allow the removal of the rules collecting these insects.

If anyone spots other omissions do let me know, via comments or DM. The advantage of a collection project is that once the rule is update it applies to all observations not just those going forward.

Last year some gall observers posted observations to the Gall Week 2021 project. This year Gall Week will be from Saturday, Sept. 3rd to Sunday, Sept. 11th. This is peak season for galls in Britain & Ireland so I hope we may add more observations & species than last year. I'll be tagging some particularly prolific gallers in a subsequent post inviting them to join the Gall Week 2022 project.

Note all observations have to be added to the project, unlike this one where observations are collected based on location and some taxonomic rules (which is why some non-galling organisms appear). I think one has to be a member too.

A worldwide project for recording galls will take place in early October (2nd to 10th): 2021 Gall Week .

Observations need to be added to the project, but it may be interesting & fun to participate.