Convoluted gall wasp
The convoluted gall wasp is a tiny brown wasp from California. Its babies grow inside pink bumps on oak leaves. A bunch of these bumps together looks a bit like a little pink brain.
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Fun facts
The pink, brain shaped lump is really a cluster of many small galls stuck together.
The galls grow in summer on the underside of valley oak leaves, along the middle vein.
The grown-up wasps come out of the galls the next spring.
The adult wasps are only 2.5 millimetres long, smaller than a grain of rice.
Most asked questions about Convoluted gall wasp
?What is a gall?
A gall is a little lump that a plant grows around an insect baby. The baby lives and eats inside it.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Andricus confertus
- Group
- Wasps and hornets
- Family
- Cynipidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Cynipidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Andricus confertus (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Franco Folini from San Francisco, USA. CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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