Sunday 15th September 1996 Field Meeting
Sandall Beat Wood, Doncaster
Sandall Beat Wood, a mixed deciduous woodland proved a fascinating site for plant galls. A fine crop of Birch catkins provided an opportunity for Margaret Redfern to initiate the group into the identification of the galls Semudobia betulae and Semudobia skuhravae. Ms. Redfern also identified Tetramesa hyalipenne on the Couch-grass (Elymus repens). Trioza remota, an Oak leaf gall was tentatively identified with the aid of the Swedish book, “Galler” by Carl-Cedric Coulianos and Ingmar Holmasen. A specimen has been sent to Mr. P. Shirley for confirmation. The gall looks like the Oak leaf has been pricked with a pin raising small lumps on the upper surface about 1mm high and there are corresponding indentations on the lower surface.
Dorothy Bramley, a former president of the Doncaster Naturalists’ Society searched through a draft copy (a pity it was never published) of ‘The Ecology of Sandall Beat Wood’ and discovered that Andricus lignicola was first recorded in this wood in 1980 and Andricus quercusalicis in 1981. Both galls are still common on the scrub Oaks.
Higginbottom, Margaret Redfern and Ian Farmer.
List of Galls for 1Km SE 6003
| Host Plant | Plant Gall | Causer |
| Acer pseudoplatanus | Eriophyes pseudoplatani | Gall Mite |
| Acer pseudoplatanus | Eriophyes macrorhynchus | Gall Mite |
| Atriplex sp. | Hayhurstia atriplicis | Aphis |
| Arctium minus | Terellia tussilaginus | Gall Fly |
| Chamerion angustifolium | Dasineura kiefferiana | Gall Midge |
| Crataegus monogyna | Dasineura crataegi | Gall Midge |
| Crataegus monogyna | Eriophyes pyri var crataegi | Gall Mite |
| Fagus sylvatica | Hartigiola annulipes | Gall Midge |
| Fagus sylvatica | Eriophyes stenaspis | Gall Mite |
| Fagus sylvatica | Eriophyes nervisequus var. maculifer | Gall Mite |
| Fraxinus excelsior | Dasineura fraxini | Gall Midge |
| Fraxinus excelsior | Psyllopsis fraxini | Psyllid |
| Quercus sp. | Andricus anthracina | Gall Wasp |
| Quercus sp. | Andricus corruptrix | Gall Wasp |
| Quercus sp. | Andricus curvator | Gall Wasp |
| Quercus sp. | Andricus fecundator | Gall Wasp |
| Quercus sp. | Andricus Kollari | Gall Wasp |
| Quercus sp. | Andricus lignicola | Gall Wasp |
| Quercus sp. | Andricus quercuscalicis | Gall Wasp |
| Quercus sp. | Biorhiza pallida | Gall Wasp |
| Quercus sp. | Cynips agama | Gall Wasp |
| Quercus sp. | Cynips divisa | Gall Wasp |
| Quercus sp. | Neuroterus numismalis | Gall Wasp |
| Quercus sp. | Neuroterus quercusbaccarum | Gall Wasp |
| Quercus sp. | Trioza remota | Psyllid |
| Rosa sp. | Blennocampa phyllocolpa | Sawfly |
| Rubus sp. | Dasineura plicatrix | Gall Midge |
| Sambucus nigra | Epitrimerus | Gall Mite |
List of Galls for 1Km SE 6103
| Host Plant | Plant Gall | Causer |
| Pteridium aquilinum | Chirosia parvicornis | Gall Midge |
| Pteridium aquilinum | Dasineura filicina | Gall Midge |
| Betula pendula | Eriophyes rudis | Gall Mite |
| Betula pendula | Massalongia betulifolia | Gall Midge |
| Betula pendula | Semudobia betulae | Gall Midge |
| Betula pendula | Semudobia skuhravae | Gall Midge |
| Corylus avellana | Eriophyes avellanae | Gall Midge |
| Crataegus monogyna | Dasineura crataegi | Gall Midge |
| Crataegus monogyna | Eriophyes goniothorax typicus | Gall Mite |
| Elymus repens | Tetramesa hyalipenne | Chalcid Wasp |
| Fagus sylvatica | Hartigiola annulipes | Gall Midge |
| Fagus sylvatica | Eriophyes stenaspis | Gall Mite |
| Fraxinus excelsior | Aceria fraxinivora | Gall Mite |
| Fraxinus excelsior | Dasineura fraxini | Gall Midge |
| Fraxinus excelsior | Dasineura fraxinea | Gall Midge |
| Hieracium sp. | Noeeta pupillata | Gall Fly |
| Quercus sp. | Andricus anthracina | Gall Wasp |
| Quercus sp. | Andricus lignicola | Gall Wasp |
| Quercus sp. | Andricus quercuscalicis | Gall Wasp |
| Quercus sp. | Biorhiza pallida | Gall Wasp |
| Quercus sp. | Cynips longiventris | Gall Wasp |
| Quercus sp. | Cynips quercusfolii | Gall Wasp |
| Rosa sp. | Wachtliella rosarum | Gall Midge |
| Rubus sp. | Dasineura plicatrix | Gall Midge |
| Salix caprea | Iteomyia capreae | Gall Midge |
| Salix caprea | Pontania bridgmanii | Sawfly |
| Salix caprea | Pontania pedunculi | Sawfly |
| Salix caprea | Phytoptus triradiatus | Gall Mite |
| Tilia sp. | Eriophyes leiosoma | Gall Mite |
| Tilia sp. | Didymomyia reaumuriana | Gall Midge |
| Tussilago farfara | Puccinia poarum | Rust Fungus |
| Ulmus glabra | Eriosoma ulmi | Aphis |
| Urtica dioica | Dasineura urticae | Gal;l Midge |
References
Coulianos, c. & Holmasen, I. – Galler, Stenstrom Interpublishing AB, Sweden
Redfern, M. & Askew, R. R. (1992) – Plant Galls, Naturalists’ Handbook No. 17
Stubbs, F. B. (1986) – Provisional Key to British Plant Galls, BPGS