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Ramsey Sullivan
@ramzsullivan.bsky.social
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Passionate about #cecidology (the study of #gall inducing organisms) // Gallformers.org administrator // Learning macro photography // iNat: https://www.inaturalist.org/people/tepary // Living in #Alaska // he/him
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A #dissection series of a Disholcaspis #gall found on an #oak at #CSU, Fort Collins, #CO.
#insects #plants #entomology
A round greenish gall on a branch of an oak with leaves turning yellow. A dissected Disholcaspis gall showing an encased structure in solid tissue. An inquiline is seen next to the inducer's chamber. A Disholcaspis sp. pupa held between to fingers. It appears white with red eyes.
October 28, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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colinpurrington.bsky.social
Oak rough bullet gall (Disholcaspis quercusmamma) with a bodyguard that was collecting nectar from the surface of the gall. The wasps and ants that come to these nectar rewards likely deter parasitic wasps and inquiline hangers-on from ovipositing into the galls. 🌿 #galls #cynipidae #wasps #oaks
Black and white hornet on an oak leaf next to three spherical galls growing out of a stem.
September 23, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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#gall #meme
A meme made from the book cover illustrated in 1972 by Harry Borgman for Dr. Futurity by Philip K Dick: A moon in the shape of a skull watches over a man in a space suit without a helmet peering at a glowing object on an alien crater. "The pervasive rot of existence", is written over the moon and, "Me, looking for a cool gall" is written above the glowing object.
September 19, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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inaturalist.bsky.social
'Tis the season to search for lumps on plants, aka galls! These growths are created in response to other organisms — often insects, fungi, or bacteria — injecting their chemicals into the plant. 🧵⤵️

Join the gall celebrations: tr.ee/ziMCEH
This gall looks like something you'd imagine a mythical fairy-like creature living in. It's shaped like a mushroom and has a small hole in the front. The stem of a plant has a couple round growths with small holes in them.
September 10, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Gall Week Sept 2025 is here! Join the event: www.inaturalist.org/projects/gal... and Gall Week Umbrella Project: www.inaturalist.org/projects/gal....

#GallWeek #iNaturalist #Gallsky #botany #entomology #CitizenScience #CommunityScience #plants #galls #BioBlitz #NatureID #PlantPathology #Ecology
Cai, the cabbage merchant from the animated series Avatar the Last Airbender, holds a large, rose-shaped green-and-pink plant gall (Willow Rose Gall) close to his face with a blissful smile and closed eyes; a wooden building with red circular decorations is visible in the background.
September 1, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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kirstenmprior.bsky.social
This was a fun collaboration, led by Guerin Brown @guerin-brown.bsky.social in the Forbes Lab @lordforbington.bsky.social - our teams found European parasitoids emerged from North American oak gall wasp species in western and eastern North America, which were likely separate introductions.
August 28, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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#Papercraft delta traps I made for a #SciComm booth about #spongymoth detection in #AK. They were a hit with all ages. Lots of participants mentioned they had seen these traps before, but never knew what they were!

#Cricut project:
design.cricut.com/landing/proj...

#bugsky #entomology #craft
Two paper-model delta traps are held in the palm of a hand. Delta trap cut and scored into cardstock paper, composed of five horizontal scores, two vertical scores, and four triangle perforations. Two paper-model delta traps are placed on either side of a real delta trap. The real delta trap reads, "Insect Trap, Please Do Not Disturb".
August 27, 2025 at 6:56 AM
ramzsullivan.bsky.social
#GallWeek is happening May 3rd-11.th Join the project on #iNaturalist and document gall diversity near you: www.inaturalist.org/projects/gal...

Event-sticker orders, open thru the 16th, can be accessed in the project.

#gall #citizenscience #communityscience #sticker #entomology #nature
Gall Week May 2025 Sticker Design: Rolled parchment with the text, Gall Week, lays sealed with a round wax stamp that reads, May 2025, next to an inkwell with a feather quill that resembles an oak leaf colorfully transitioning through seasons. Two round galls with exit holes lay next to the inkwell.
April 28, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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#Flowerfriday A Capitate Lousewort (Pedicularis capitata) grows on the side of Tanalian Mt with Lake Clark and the remote town of Port Alsworth, #AK featured behind. This land is Dena'ina ełnena land and has been known by the names Qizhjeh and Qizhjeh Vena for much longer.
A capitate lousewort with three flowers in bloom grows amongst bog blueberries on the side of Tanalian Mt. Alder grows further down the slope. Behind the flower is the town of Port Alsworth and Lake Clark.
March 22, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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resistancerangers.altgov.info
GREAT NEWS from the courts today! Illegally-fired feds (including NPS) must be reinstated. BUT will DOI comply?

You know the drill, team! Let's tell DOI to follow the law and rehire rangers. Stand up for parks and public lands ✊

Script and addresses at tinyurl.com/RehireDOI

#RehirePublicServants
A park ranger in uniform with long dark hair stands facing away from the camera toward a forested landscape, holding a US flag.
March 13, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Eileen and James Kramer were fired from their jobs at Lake Clark National Park in Alaska, even though they both recently received promotions. A judge has found the administration's firings illegal.
These National Park workers say a Trump agency fired them illegally. A judge agrees
Eileen and James Kramer were fired from their jobs at Lake Clark National Park in Alaska, even though they both recently received promotions. A judge has found the administration's firings illegal.
www.npr.org
March 2, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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resistancerangers.altgov.info
Park rangers want YOU to help us protect our parks! This Saturday, 3/1, in solidarity with the 50:50:1 movement, plan a protest in support of your closest national park. Do it at 12 noon your time, or whatever best fits your secret plan 👀🤠😏

#ProtectOurParks #SaveOurParks #RehireRangers
A WPA-style poster in shades of brown, black, tan, and blue shows a park ranger in silhouette looking at Horseshoe Falls at El Capitan in Yosemite National Park – an upside-down American flag hangs from the cliff. Text reads “Stand up for National Parks & Public Lands Saturday, March 1 – Nationwide day of action - @ResistanceRangers” Text at the bottom reads “433 Park Sites, 433 Protests, 1Day – Worth Fighting For” Yellow text on an olive background reads “Protect your parks protest – March 1st at noon, @ResistanceRangers” Yellow text on olive background read “Protest ideas: hand out flyers to cars, put up a sign in front of webcams, hang a banner, hand a flag upside down, march in a gateway town, or rally inside the park. Picket around the park sign, share photos online - #ProtectOurParks #RehireParkRangers - @ResistanceRangers” Yellow text on an olive background reads “Noon on Saturday March 1st Protect your parks protest – protest at your closest National Park site. Demand that parks and park rangers be protected. With your help, there will be protests at all 433 park sites. @ResistanceRangers”
February 26, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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norikonbuchan.bsky.social
Feron kingi making her way out of a red cone gall
February 25, 2025 at 3:20 AM
ramzsullivan.bsky.social
This undescribed #tephritidae induced gall (www.jstor.org/stable/42871...) is easily my favorite #gall on rubber rabbitbrush (Ericameria nauseosa). It's uncommon in my experience, having only encountered it twice.
#bugsky #entomology #naturephotography #diptera
A four sided gall opened with four recurved points is held above a rosette of stunted leaves by a peduncle emerging from the green stem of a rubber rabbitbrush.
February 25, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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#Gall #mites (Eriophyidae) inside their gall on a #birch #leaf. #nature #macro
February 24, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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Last year I reared #moths out of a fireweed stem #gall that was growing in my backyard and gave them to a project sequencing moths in AK. Even in your nearest outdoor space there are #discoveries to be made. Stay curious. Results: portal.boldsystems.org/record/AKLEP...
#nature #entomology
A conspicuously swollen section of fireweed stem approximately 2.5" in length and 1.5" in diameter. A moth, with long antennae, in the genus Mompha that was reared from a fireweed stem gall. The moth is shown in detail through a dissecting scope to reveal brown wings with tan and auburn banding.
February 20, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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johngreensbluesky.bsky.social
So what exactly is the Project for Awesome? Since 2007, my brother @hankgreen.bsky.social and many friends and online creators have come together to host an annual 48-hour livestream in support of great charities. Over the years, we've raised over $22,000,0000 for a huge variety of charities...
image showing the projectforawesome.com header; this year we've already raised over $500,000 and the p4a technically hasn't begun yet.
February 14, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Cynthia makes beautiful fiber art capturing the magic of desert landscapes. I can't recommend her work enough! If you're ever near Ajo, AZ I highly recommend seeing it in person.
sequanna.bsky.social sequanna.bsky.social @sequanna.bsky.social · Feb 2
TWISTED

Twisting and Turing,
Following the light,
Monsoon is coming,
Quenching delight.

www.cynthiasequannastudios.com/workszoom/58...

#cynthiasequannastudios
#fiberart
#landscape
#embroidery
February 2, 2025 at 5:59 AM
ramzsullivan.bsky.social
I walked the Cave Spring Trail every weekend for over a year when I lived in the Needles District of Canyonlands National Park. During that time, I had the privilege of documenting the development of many #galls. Here's one of my favorites. Details in alt text. #nationalpark #entomology #utah
A two pannel photo showing the development of several Cotton-gall Midge, Rhopalomyia utahensis, galls on Rubber Rabbitbrush, Ericameria nauseosa over 20 days. Left photo depicts small galls less than 5mm in size. Right photo shows the same galls, 20 days later, now 10mm in size. Both photos show a ruler, in cm, placed behind the galls for scale.
January 24, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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An undescribed wasp in the genus Neuroterus emerging from her gall on a Harvard oak leaf; sped up 2x.
#gall #wasp #oak #entomology #insect #bug #citizenscience

www.gallformers.org/gall/3484
January 22, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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Honored for the acknowledgment in a paper by Ray Gagné et al redescribing Dasineura epilobii in #AK. I shared #gall development on #fireweed #plants over the summer via #iNaturalist, which helped confirm life history traits. #citizenscience #entomology https:/ldoi.org/1 0.4289/0013- 8797.126.3.292
A fireweed flower bud gall midge, Dasineura epilobii, rests on a fireweed flower bud.
January 22, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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A throwback to this beautiful spider camouflaged on a fir branch at a campsite in the La Sal Mts of Moab, Utah. Fierce Orbweaver (Araneus saevus). Taken with a pixel 4 and lens attachment.
#spider #camouflage #nature #photography
A Fierce Orbweaver, Araneus saevus, sits camoflauged on a fir branch.
January 8, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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My partner made 2"x2" framed needle-felted plant galls. Identifications and hosts in the alt txt. #gallsky #art #needlefelting #scienceart #entomology #bugsky #wool
Line drawings of various galls frame the text, "The Tiny Plant Gall-ery." A white and red needle-felted gall ofCallirhytis seminator (Wool Sower Gall Wasp) of White Oaks A green and red needle-felted gall of Amphibolips cookii (Oak Apple Gall Wasp) of Quercus sp A yellow and white needle-felted gall, with yellow beads for resin, of Aciurina trixa (Bubble-gall Tephritid) of Ericameria nauseosa (Rubber Rabbitbrush)
December 29, 2024 at 10:01 AM
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In my family, we have a tradition called, "Deck the Galls!" We look for galls on our decorated tree and rear them out. If you have a tree, or outside-to-inside plant for any holiday, consider turning it into a science project. #gall #citizenscience #holidays #christmastree #entomology (1/2).
A midge pupal exuvia extends from a gall consisting of small stunted needles on Pinus edulis. A gall consisting of small stunted needles from pinus edulis measures about 6mm next to a ruler. A dissected gall consisting of small stunted needles from Pinus edulis reveals a single chamber with an orange gall midge larva.
December 23, 2024 at 9:00 PM
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Dasineura swainei, spruce bud midge, in oviposition on a fresh spruce tip. Spotted while walking the pup last summer and was glad I had my macro-lens attachment for my phone in my pack! #gallsky #gall #macro #entomology
A spruce bud midge, Dasineura swainei, with her ovipositor inserted in between spruces needles at the apex of a fresh spruce tip.
December 11, 2024 at 10:30 PM