Yellow wig gall wasp
The yellow wig gall wasp is a tiny black wasp, only about 2 millimetres long. Its babies grow inside a fuzzy, woolly ball on an oak tree. The ball is called a gall, and it looks a bit like a tiny yellow wig.
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Fun facts
The woolly galls are tan or yellow and about 5 to 8 millimetres across.
Each gall has just one little room inside, with room for one baby.
It likes oaks, and most of all the valley oak.
Scientists used to put it in a different group of gall wasps before they moved it to its own.
Most asked questions about Yellow wig gall wasp
?What is a gall?
A gall is a lump that a plant grows around an insect baby. This wasp's galls on oak trees are fuzzy and yellow.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Druon fullawayi
- Group
- Wasps and hornets
- Family
- Cynipidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Cynipidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Druon fullawayi (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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