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Spotting

Description:

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

Habitat:

Stillhouse Falls Hollow, Tennessee.

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10 Comments

KarenL
KarenL 12 years ago

Me too Nitch! Especially as I picked a few up inspected them, smelled them.... :)

Nitch
Nitch 12 years ago

interesting spotting... would love to know what it is... :-D

KarenL
KarenL 12 years ago

I will do! Thanks again Alex!

AlexKonig
AlexKonig 12 years ago

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!!

KarenL
KarenL 12 years ago

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!

AlexKonig
AlexKonig 12 years ago

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.!!

KarenL
KarenL 12 years ago

:)

Mark Ridgway
Mark Ridgway 12 years ago

...and they don't have Pfizer written on them?

KarenL
KarenL 12 years ago

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!

Mark Ridgway
Mark Ridgway 12 years ago

this will be interesting....

KarenL
Spotted by
KarenL

Tennessee, USA

Spotted on Mar 14, 2012
Submitted on Mar 15, 2012

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