Ann wrote in
:
Darren Garrison expounded:
Found it growing on a cedar tree. Is it some sort of insect egg case?
Or a parasitic plant? Or an advance scout for an alien invasion
force?
I could get better pictures of it with my digital camera tommorrow, if
necessary (these were from my flatbed scanner).
http://webpages.charter.net/garrison6328/wthmohit1.jpg
http://webpages.charter.net/garrison6328/wthmohit2.jpg
http://webpages.charter.net/garrison6328/wthmohit3.jpg
Those are cedar apple rust fruits, it's a fungus that forms on cedars.
Very strange little things, aren't they??!?
pshaawww, don't let her fool you.
those are clearly the newly shed exoskeletons of the land dwelling octopus:
octopus squirrelbraineatingerensis
here is some more info on land dwelling octopi
http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus.html