Diptera: Cecidomyiidae - gall midge Dasineura viciae Photographs on Vicia sativa (Common Vetch) and V. sepium (Bush Vetch) Hosts: Usually Vicia sativa, sepium, also V. bithynica, cracca, pannonica, villosa Leaflets form green to reddish pod-like galls, each with 2-4 whitish or pale orange larvae. Two or three generations per year, larvae pupate in the soil Similar: Dasineura spadicea only occurs on V. cracca Macrolabis vicicola and Tricholaba similis (yellowish-red larvae) are iniquilines of D. viciae

Dasineura viciae
Badbury Rings and Lytchett Matravers, Dorset. June 2015, September 2017