Silk button spangle galls on the underside of an English oak (Quercus robur) leaf. These protective galls contain the larvae of a parasitic wasp (Neur

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Silk button spangle galls on the underside of an English oak (Quercus robur) leaf. These protective galls contain the larvae of a parasitic wasp (Neuroterus numismalis). Photographed in Dorset, UK, in September.

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