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I hate to spoil the yummyness that was the last post with this post, but I am having an Invasion of the Body Snatchers moment here. This morning, some strange things were found out in the garden by my dad's wife. She brought me outside to their garden area to show me. She that she had found several of these buried in the dirt, all along a 3 foot span. She thought they were insects and described it as looking like a "shrimp" inside. At first they look like mushrooms, with the outside having that same spongy leathery texture, but then you cut in to it and I am pretty sure this ain't no mushroom. Just inside the skin there is a layer of smiley substance, then another white skin type layer. Inside that is more goo and then pink/brown little things. Please help me figure this out!
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| The mystery - intact w/ trowel for scale |
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| Just inside the skin |
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I thought it was maybe a snake egg. . . but the inside doesn't really seem like it. I hate to think of insects this big crawling around the garden. Please advise!!
***UPDATE 6/19***
SO! After much thought and poking and digging, we have turned up some additional whatevertheseare, and they look like the might be different sizes, even very small, and have roots??? Here are more pictures.
Did you ever figure out what it was? My money is on cicada or June bug.
ReplyDeleteHey Josh! Thanks for your suggestion! We are finding that they are turning up in different sizes. I am adding some additional pictures... do you know of a mushroom or fungus that would look like this?
ReplyDeleteBeats me. I've got a fungus-loving co-worker though; I'll ask her.
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