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Field Notes

Description:

2" diameter pile of empty egg cases? frass? - 1.5 mm cylindrical grayish white in color on moss.

Habitat:

Stillhouse Falls Hollow, Tennessee.

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (10)

Me too Nitch! Especially as I picked a few up inspected them, smelled them.... :)
interesting spotting... would love to know what it is... :-D
I will do! Thanks again Alex!
i have also some picture about the ones i found, but they are blurry and because i came not far enough to clear the mystery i dont posted it. Here there are brown not white (maybe the white is a mold, at this possibility haven't i thought before) , and most of the time near half dead wood. just about 2-4 mm long and 1-2 mm wide. good luck , when you clear the mystery let me know!!
Thanks Alex! I didn't think so either - too random. I thought about frass but discounted it because they appeared to be hollow with little exit holes - I could be wrong though! I like a good mystery!
i encounter something like that also in the forest. It's no fungi. i suspect it's some kind of waist/excrement of bug or larvae. Maybe wood-worms/bugs, therefore try further into the direction of insects.!!
...and they don't have Pfizer written on them?
Of course Argy, they might not be egg cases at all! There were so many of them it would have had to have been an very big bug!

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PublishedMarch 15, 2012

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