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A Robin's pincushion or bedeguar gall and fruits, rosehips, on the Dog Rose (Rosa canina) against a blue summer sky. These galls are caused by the lavae of the gall wasp Diplolepis rosae. Bedgebury Forest, Kent, UK. 29 August 2005
* This growth on a wild rose is called a Bedeguar Gall, or more picturesquely a Robin's pincushion. (Bedeguar comes from a French, and ultimately a Persian, word meaning 'wind-brought').
* Several D. rosae larvae form the gall, and they may been joined by the harmless inquiline cynipid Periclistus brandtii (Ratzeburg) and (as in marble galls) a complex ecology of parasitoids and hyperparasitoids.
* The species consists almost exclusively of parthenogenic females.
* This example is about 7cm in diameter.
* Cambridge TL463614, 18 Jul 2002.
* Synonym: Rhodites rosae
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