this. under the Apricot Tree. just lying there amidst the grasses, dried leaves, organic debris. i've never seen such a thing. Looking, i think it is an egg case of a Gall Wasp. i have never seen a Gall Wasp here, either. it's dry and firm. how firm, i don't know because i don't want to put too much pressure simply for my own curiosity…things are forming in there. becoming in there.
quite amazing
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isn’t it? just, Really, isn’t it?
a Wasp.
a Wasp.
i can’t Imagine how it all went. the two twigs are
“glued” together. i think the small bit of something
to the side might have been coincidental..but who knows?
Maybe she had a sense of Art….the small something that
compliments the Whole?
it is extraordinarily beautiful…the color, the Shine.
of course, there is the Urge to keep it. but it needs
to go back Out. i think i’ll put it in that hanging
basket and watch the progress if i am that Lucky.
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it holds.
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yes. and i keep staring at it. The INTELLIGENCE and
BRILLIANCE of the construction. the larvae will eat it
as they/it grows.
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larva/e
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Wow!
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how perfect and mysterious
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yes intelligence … the beïng of that little wasp
great is’nt it …
brilliant natural/ART
with the shine on it just looking at AMBER stone
I like your nails
they look like mine
gardenwork/ART
all is really WOW !!!
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i think that perhaps 500000 years from now it will be a lovely piece of amber.
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do you have an oak tree? ‘cos the Dutch gall wasps lay their eggs on oak trees (at least over here they do) and the tree reacts with this growth, which we call a gall apple; it can also used for dyeing, of course it can!
I have been reading now on gall apples and apparently different insects induce differently shaped gall balls (in itself extraordinary!) and they might choose other trees and even plants and there are even insects who lay their eggs in the gall apples to feed off the larvae in there, so what comes out might not be the original instigator of the growth…..this small area of life is vastly interesting
I now wonder what your apple is? determining the tree might give you a lead as to which insect led to this particular apple?
and yes, it is quite beautiful
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wow. it looks like glass. it looks, actually, like something that Mo would make!
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Hi Grace, this does look rather mysterious – and beautiful.
Yes, glass came to my mind as well!
Best wishes
eva
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We have oak galls around here 🙂
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usually i try to make the nails better, but in the
moment i didn’t care.
intelligence. intelligence.
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OR hopefully, the thing within will consume it and Become, from the nourishment
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ahh….”what comes out might not be the original instigator of the growth”….
IS THIS AMAZING, OR WHAT????????????????
so MUCH. So Much complex Beingness…how long it’s taken to Evolve this complexity, this inter connectedness, inter Dependence.
this tree is an Apricot Tree
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it does, doesn’t it. and that’s a Great Compliment for
Mo
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and best wishes back to YOU!
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