This furry looking ‘pincushion’ is a hormone induced distortion of a bud on a dog-rose caused by the larvae of a tiny gall wasp. When I was young it was the sort of thing we would pick and take in for the ‘nature table’ at school.
This furry looking ‘pincushion’ is a hormone induced distortion of a bud on a dog-rose caused by the larvae of a tiny gall wasp. When I was young it was the sort of thing we would pick and take in for the ‘nature table’ at school.
