2020.06.02 Wool-Sower Gall Wasp Gall on White Oak (Quercus Alba)
June 2, 2020. The Wool-Sower Gall Wasp lays its eggs on leaf buds of only the White Oak (Quercus Alba). The eggs hatch and the grubs secret some magic substance that hijacks the tree's leaf creating mechanism. A wooly fuzz ball is created in which the grubs hide and drink oak tree secretions. The Wool-Sower Gall Wasp has a complex two generation reproductive cycle you should read about. Nature is weird.
https://content.ces.ncsu.edu/wool-sow...
https://www.scottarboretum.org/wool-s...
https://bugguide.net/node/view/180960