Have you ever seen these strange leafy growths on oak trees? They show up often in spring and many people mistake them for flowers. They’re actually leafy oak galls, one of the hundreds of unique galls created by tiny gall wasps in the family Cynipidae. When the female wasp lays an egg, the plant responds by forming this protective structure around the developing larva. Inside the gall, the larva feeds, grows, and eventually emerges as an adult wasp. Watch as we cut open one of these galls to re
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