Layers in a piece of tree bark? Or part of a mushroom?
Barb
Heres something for you to try and figure out. I took a few macro photography pics today out in my yard. I then cropped the photos so you are seeing a natural pattern....First photo with flash... remainder of Photos were taken without flash at a high ISO.
What do you think these photos are of?
-al
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Layers in a piece of tree bark? Or part of a mushroom?
Barb
It's kind of late in the year for wasps, but is it a section of a wasp hive? One of the pictures looks like there is a bit of the paper "peeling" away from the rest. Other than that, what Barb said. LOL!
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Wow,
Chad I am impressed! right on the money. Looks like I will have to get creative here if I am going to stump you guys.
I have a bald face hornet nest in the yard that got torn into by a woodpecker..... This was a piece of it.
I found it on the ground below the nest and was really amazed by the pattern...The photos don't do it justice. From a biology point of view that paper is amazingly complex...each row and color represents a different wood source that was harvested, and turned to pulp and used to make paper.... Over the course of the summer I saw the hornets chewing away on my garden fence, wood shed and old pile of pine trees... theres probably 20-30 or more sources they used... yeah I know ..I am weird...but things like that blow me away...so simple a creature and so complex a structure..
So anyone else want to post some pics for guessing session?
-al
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Looks like a rock to me.
Brian
Very good Chad! I knew I had seen such a thing before but couldn't place it. Now I remember, it is in my cousin's living room hanging next to the fireplace! Empty of course.
Barb
Darrell
Darrell,
That brings back memories... lol I did that too one winter. I did not know that the adults all died in the winter...but the eggs/pupae stay dormant until spring.... It took 2 weeks for the hornets to hatch....
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Thanks Barb! The last picture gave it away for me. You can see a layer of the "paper" peeling away. That's the only way I knew I had a **** at guessing correctly.
YIKES!
Thanks Eddie, those nests are just like paper. Imagine heavy tissue paper all wrapped around in a ball with little rooms inside. Pretty impressive I must say! These little guys are quite the engineers.
DOUBLE YIKES! Have you ever come across the ones the nest in the ground? When I was about 12 I ran over a nest opening with the lawn mover. By the time I was able to reach the screened in porch at the back of the house, I had been stung 5 times. Thanks god I'm not allergic!
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yep..yellow jackets here in CT... I've stepped on many nests working in the yard and hiking the state forests...worst was 26 times... and now I AM Allergic.. swell up like a balloon without benedryl and epipen.DOUBLE YIKES! Have you ever come across the ones the nest in the ground? When I was about 12 I ran over a nest opening with the lawn mover. By the time I was able to reach the screened in porch at the back of the house, I had been stung 5 times. Thanks god I'm not allergic!
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Looks like a piece of my mother in laws face !
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