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Monday Morning Mystery 062716
Found quite a few of these at High Mountain last week. What are they?
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Cool picture of the inside ???
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Oh there it is…this is so great! I searched under “bi-section of an oak apple gall” and it popped right up!
https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fc1.staticflickr.com%2F1%2F4%2F7245651_6e3719348d.jpg&f=1 -
P.S. Oh dear, it shows the time I posted this. You see, I have to wake up my husband at this hour for reasons too mundane to mention. Please, do not judge me, since it is in service to my husband.
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Excellent! I will believe what Ginny says because it sounds so fantastical that it must be true. Is there an illustration anywhere that shows the inside structure and tiny incubating wasp I wonder? That would be very cool. I am going to try and look it up.
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That would be a Oak Tree Seed Pod …..Those growths aren’t oak seeds but the housing structure of a tiny wasp. They’re called oak apple galls.
A single wasp larvae is at the center of this protective pod, which grows a spongy mass with tentacles that makes it resemble some sort of round fruity structure.
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Ginny
Cool picture of the inside ???
Marianne Herrmann
Oh there it is…this is so great! I searched under “bi-section of an oak apple gall” and it popped right up!
https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fc1.staticflickr.com%2F1%2F4%2F7245651_6e3719348d.jpg&f=1
Marianne Herrmann
P.S. Oh dear, it shows the time I posted this. You see, I have to wake up my husband at this hour for reasons too mundane to mention. Please, do not judge me, since it is in service to my husband.
Marianne Herrmann
Excellent! I will believe what Ginny says because it sounds so fantastical that it must be true. Is there an illustration anywhere that shows the inside structure and tiny incubating wasp I wonder? That would be very cool. I am going to try and look it up.
Ginny
That would be a Oak Tree Seed Pod …..Those growths aren’t oak seeds but the housing structure of a tiny wasp. They’re called oak apple galls.
A single wasp larvae is at the center of this protective pod, which grows a spongy mass with tentacles that makes it resemble some sort of round fruity structure.