Hey, what is that in the last picture? We saw something just like on our walk in the woods last week, but I haven't had any luck figuring out just what it was yet.
I guess it was a cocoon of sorts, but I'm not sure.
They're the spindle galls from a kind of mite! I happened across a drawing of them on a maple leave just yesterday in one of my favorite lesson-type books, Hands-On Nature.
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Hey, what is that in the last picture? We saw something just like on our walk in the woods last week, but I haven't had any luck figuring out just what it was yet.
ReplyDeleteI guess it was a cocoon of sorts, but I'm not sure.
They're the spindle galls from a kind of mite! I happened across a drawing of them on a maple leave just yesterday in one of my favorite lesson-type books, Hands-On Nature.
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