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Specimen will be curated into the University of Alaska Museum Insect Collection.

Observations at Angel Rocks trailhead

On Plantago maritima

Host: Betula sp.
First obs in NA?

On fireweed

on fireweed

Eggs?

On columbine

Does anyone know what’s happening here? Found on a nettle plant, removed to take photos and have it in a little bug dorm container so let me know if more photos would be helpful.

Galls at the base of last year's growth

Host: Picea mariana

Was able to rear and will be sending samples to Ray Gagné

Images are of two different individuals

Ovipositing on Picea sp.

on Ledum sp.

Egg on Picea glauca needle

On Birch

Collected 25 May, allowed larvae to drop from leaves in rearing tubes. Birch host.

Small fuzzy insect(?) egg sacs found on Salix bebbiana

Both T alni ss and T occidentalis have been reported in Alaska... not sure which this is.

On a small paper birch sapling. My thumbnail (bottom) is 1.5 cm long for scale.

Gall? Or normal bud?

Same plant/area as this late summer observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/183040382

~6 inches from end to end

First photo shows hole dug

Gall on willow stem? Cc @tepary. Rabdophaga rigidae, the willow beaked-gall midge?

Found under loose bark layer

Softish, not hard

With prey

Curled leaf on populus. Larvae inside, silk remnant.