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>> No. 2623 Anonymous
4th October 2016
Tuesday 7:55 pm
2623 What in the good Lords name is this?
How's it going lads?

Just a quick one, I've got a young pear tree in my yard, noticed today some yellow/brown patches on some of the leaves, turned them over to find these hideous spikey growths on the back of them.

Does anyone happen to know what it is?
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>> No. 2624 Anonymous
4th October 2016
Tuesday 7:59 pm
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There's quite a few of them on different leaves in different parts of the tree. It's been very close to a peach and an apple tree but neither of those trees have these growths on them, so maybe it's specific to pear trees?
>> No. 2625 Anonymous
4th October 2016
Tuesday 9:02 pm
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I'm not really an expert, but they're probably wasp eggs.
>> No. 2626 Anonymous
4th October 2016
Tuesday 9:48 pm
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>>2625

I thought wasps layed eggs in their nests?

But either way I wont be risking a wasp infestation, I'll be getting rid of these pronto
>> No. 2627 Anonymous
4th October 2016
Tuesday 9:53 pm
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I think you've lucked out and got yourself a ferrero rocher tree by mistake.
>> No. 2628 Anonymous
4th October 2016
Tuesday 10:28 pm
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Definitely looks like some kind of eggs, though I've not seen that kind before. The "growths" in >>2624 above the two brown spots in particular really look eggy. Whatever it is, scrap the leaves asap.

>>2626
Gall wasps produce weird growths on leaves, but they look a bit different.
>> No. 2629 Anonymous
4th October 2016
Tuesday 11:01 pm
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>>2628
I have a feeling that's the galls/spore growths of Cedar-apple or quince rust, which affects apples and crabapples and other Rosaceae. Remove the affected twigs/leaves before it spreads any further and don't plant junipers and other Rosaceae near each other:

http://www.extension.umn.edu/garden/yard-garden/trees-shrubs/cedar-apple-rust-and-gymnosporangium-rusts/#management-rosaceae
>> No. 2630 Anonymous
4th October 2016
Tuesday 11:21 pm
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If you have some details of the sort of plant it is, you should check it against the records of the British Plant Gall Society.


http://www.britishplantgallsociety.org/
>> No. 2631 Anonymous
5th October 2016
Wednesday 9:56 am
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Butterfly eggs, I think.
>> No. 2632 Anonymous
5th October 2016
Wednesday 1:16 pm
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>>2626

>I thought wasps layed eggs in their nests?

There are considerably more wasps then just the common wasp, it is an entire sub order of animals. Most of them don't form nests.

>>2631
I think this is most likely. They are probably the eggs of something that wants to eat the plant, hence why they aren't on anything else.
>> No. 2633 Anonymous
5th October 2016
Wednesday 11:28 pm
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>>2632

For my money, fig wasps are some of the weirdest things in nature.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DQTjv_u3Vc
>> No. 2634 Anonymous
6th October 2016
Thursday 1:32 am
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>>2633

The symbiotic life cycle is weird, makes you understand better the weird thoughts the Greeks had about where animals came from when you consider how obsessed they were with figs.

I'm personally more fascinated by the variants of parasitic wasp. Particularly the ones that subvert the natural cycle of plants by excreating chemicals turning the seeds and fruit into an armoured shell for them to live in. (If you've ever seen an oak tree drop those spikey wooden balls with their acorns. That is what those are).
>> No. 2635 Anonymous
6th October 2016
Thursday 3:38 am
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>>2634

I think we can all agree that wasps are proper wrong'uns.
>> No. 2636 Anonymous
6th October 2016
Thursday 8:29 am
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>>2635

racist.
>> No. 2880 Anonymous
30th October 2020
Friday 4:17 pm
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My pear tree has the same. I worked out it's some kind of fungus. The spores are released in autumn and colonise fir trees nearby where the survive the winter, and then re-infect your pear tree when new leaves grow in spring. The thing to do is to break the cycle by pulling off the spores now before they can blow back into the fir trees.
>> No. 2881 Anonymous
30th October 2020
Friday 5:07 pm
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>>2880
It's Gymnosporangium sabinae, "pear rust". >>2629 was fairly close.
https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?pid=236

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