Crystalline Gall Wasp

Feron crystallinum, also known as the crystalline gall wasp, is a species of gall-forming wasp in the genus Feron. The former name of the Feron crystallinum is Andricus crystallinus. Galls in plants are tissues formed on the plant through either the saliva of an insect, which can reprogram a plant resulting in the abnormal growth; irritation, or infection caused by fungi, bacteria, or eggs that were laid by insects. The galls of its all-female parthenogenic generation...