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Another What is it #8231166
10/07/24 09:54 PM
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Took the middle son to our lease in New Mexico. Sitting on the mountain next to what I call scrub oak and I see these little fruits hanging from it. The old dark hard ones have a hole through them and the softer lighter colored ones have a lava inside of them. What are they?

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Re: Another What is it [Re: Pawnee] #8231169
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Oak gall (wasp).

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Oak gall

Re: Another What is it [Re: Pawnee] #8231174
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Wasps make them. Kids in the California delta been using them for bobbers before white men ever set foot in America

Re: Another What is it [Re: Pawnee] #8231177
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So what and how do the wasp make it? Is it a reaction from the tree or does the wasp produce it. Thanks


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Re: Another What is it [Re: Pawnee] #8231183
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very neat


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Re: Another What is it [Re: 2bit] #8231184
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Originally Posted by 2bit
Wasps make them. Kids in the California delta been using them for bobbers before white men ever set foot in America

That's is neat.

Re: Another What is it [Re: Pawnee] #8231191
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Oak galls have been used to make ink since at least the Early Roman Empire. It's easy to make ink with them.

https://realselfsufficiency.com/make-oak-galls-ink/#:~:text=Get%20this%20easy%20oak%20gall%20ink#:~:text=Get%20this%20easy%20oak%20gall%20ink

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Intresting

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Looks like twig and berries. For real though.


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Re: Another What is it [Re: Pawnee] #8231240
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What oak brush is this time of year, especially if there is a lot of it, is a deer elk bear magnet


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Re: Another What is it [Re: Pawnee] #8231605
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The wasp injects a chemical into the bark of the tree that makes the gall, and lays an egg that hatches out and eats the gall. The hole is where the wasp escapes into the world.


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