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Photo by Peggy Abbott
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Field Notes

Description:

Cotton-like covering a golf-ball-size ball found beneath dense tall trees above my cabin home. Trees are mostly oaks but dwarf cypress & other varieties nearby.

Habitat:

Dense woodlands of Upstate SC.

Species ID Suggestions

Wool Sower gall

Callirhytis seminator

Reference Link
ForestDragon
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Comments (2)
ForestDragon
Great find Peggy! This is actually a gall produced by the larva of a very tiny wasp. This spotting should go in the Arthropods section. :-)
AntónioGinjaGinja
Welcome to Project Noah Peggy Abbott Nice first spotting,congrats and thanks for sharing We hope you like the site as much we do; there are many features you can explore: We invite you to go to http://www.projectnoah.org/faq where you will find the purpose and “rules” of Project Noah. There is a blog http://blog.projectnoah.org/ where we post articles from spotters with special insight into different organisms. Look at the global and local missions to put your spottings into: http://www.projectnoah.org/missions
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PublishedMay 8, 2015

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