Today while working in the backyard we discovered this alien pod attached to the very tip of a lower oak tree branch.
A Goggle search of insect pupa and cocoons turn up nothing.
I think it's some type of dog eating creature that when hatched will eat our dogs. One can only hope!!!!
So we watch and wait!
04/23 After more research Beth and I have determined that this is a "Wool Sower Gall!" It is caused by secretions of the grubs of the small gall wasp, Callirhytis seminator. The wool sower gall is specific to white oak and only occurs in the spring. The galls contain seed-like structures. The gall wasps develop inside these structures.
Once hatched they do search out dogs and suck their brains out!!! The poor wasps will die of starvation if they try to do that to our three friends, lol!!!
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