I found this in the yard, not anything I can ID, or even guess what it might be. Definitely not anything I have seen forming on a plant. Might have been left from last fall, that area hadn't been cleaned since last summer.
Super lightweight and fragile, the damage on it lets you peek inside, there's some kind of fluffy seed stuff inside.
Thank you Greg and Joseph!
That would be off the neighbor's oak tree then. This explains why I didn't recognize it as a seed pod off any of my plants.
Thank you!!
backyardnature wrote:Normally in such galls, in the center an egg hatches into a wormlike larva, the larva feeds on the gall tissue around it and grows, metamorphoses into a quiescent pupa, and eventually from the pupa an adult wasp emerges.
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