Published in Scientific Papers. Series B, Horticulture, Volume LIX
Written by Constantina CHIRECEANU, Andrei CHIRILOAIE, Andrei TEODORU, Cornel SIVU

Many phytophagous insect and mite species induce galls to plant leaves, either by lying eggs or feeding activity. Someof them attack forest and fruit trees in different environments, and can became serious pests where heavy infestationoccurred. The paper presents the results regarding on the presence of galls and gall insects and mites detected in 2013on various plant species in different sites from northern part of Bucharest city (the South part of Romania). A total of 15species of insects and 3 species of mites causing gall on plants were evaluated according to their galls type and hostplant information. The gall insects belonged to Aphididae, Psyllidae, Cecidomyiidae, Cynipidae families and gall mitesbelonged to Eriophyidae family. The galls were encountered on the buds, leaves and twigs of plants, as ornamental oakand elm trees, walnut, apple, pear and plum fruit trees and dog-rose, raspberry and goji plants. The damages causedwere of aesthetic or economic importance, depending on the purpose for which the investigated plants were used.

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