Grape tube gallmaker
The grape tube gallmaker is a tiny fly called a gall midge. Its babies make grape leaves grow little red or green pointy tubes. Each tube is a tiny house with one baby inside.
How fast is it?
Fun facts
One grape leaf can have up to 135 of these little tubes on it.
Each tube is about 1 centimetre long and shaped like a tiny curved horn.
The tubes are usually crimson red, but young ones can be green.
Its name viticola means one who lives on grape vines.
The larva inside is only about 1 millimetre long.
Most asked questions about Grape tube gallmaker
?What are the little red cones on grape leaves?
They are galls made by the grape tube gallmaker. A tiny fly larva lives inside each one.
?Is the grape tube gallmaker harmful?
It is harmless to people. It just makes small tubes grow on grape leaves.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Ampelomyia viticola
- Named by
- Osten-Sacken, 1862
- Group
- Flies and mosquitoes
- Family
- Cecidomyiidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Diptera > Cecidomyiidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Ampelomyia viticola (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 Patrick Harvey (pg_harvey). CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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