I Can't Believe The Gall!!!!

[NewYankeeSawmill]

Apparently google thinks that what this is? An Oak Gall. There's a wasp gestating on the inside or something apparently? Found it on an oak seedling in the understory near my pasture garden.



Mother nature never ceases to amaze me with her beauty... Whatever it is!

[beenthere]

That is not what I think of as an oak gall. Have you a link for us as to what you found? Is the pic posted a pic of what you have on an oak?

Maybe a Texas woolly oak gall?
https://bugguide.net/node/view/1374696/bgimage

[NewYankeeSawmill]

Maybe a Texas woolly oak gall?
https://bugguide.net/node/view/1374696/bgimage

I would say that's what it looks like!
Yes, pic is from the woods around my place in East TN this afternoon.
I searched something like "White poofball with red spots on tree" and I'll be darned if it didn't spit out some pics that were pretty close.
I grew up with card catalogs. This stuff still amazes me. 

[SwampDonkey]

Looks like a gall. The insect injects a growth hormone into a vegetative bud and causes some crazy growth that becomes host to the larva. I see galls all over white spruce tips, look like funky cones, but it's injected into a vegetative bud, not a flower bud.

[Jeff]

I find galls quite regular here in red oak country