Friday, September 27, 2013

Nature Nearby: The *I [Saw] It on The Grape Vine* Edition

Today there were even stranger things than the Mailbox Mantid hanging out on our grape vine!

This appears to be a spider making an egg case:

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And these weird things, which are new to us, appear to be Grape Tube Gallmaker (Cecidomyia viticola), which you can check out here and here.

weirdgalloreggcase1

weirdgalloreggcasecloseup

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