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Tangle: robin’s pincushion gall

24 December 2016 by David

Tangle: robin's pincushion gall

The bright red and green spiky fronds of a robin’s pincushion gall, a growth caused when a wasp lays its eggs in a rose bush – this one was on a bush in the Barley Field.

Tangle: robin's pincushion gall

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