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Mushroom Gall Wasp
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Mushroom Gall Wasp

Heteroecus sanctaeclarae

Heteroecus sanctaeclarae, also known as the mushroom gall wasp (because it looks like a toadstool cottage in a children's book about woodland creatures), is a species of cynipid wasp that induces galls on huckleberry oaks and canyon live oaks on the Pacific coast of North America.

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