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From this morning's walk in our smoky neighborhood. Fortunately it wasn't too bad! Our next door neighbor is terraforming his front yard into a bonsai fest. The sasquatch was hiding under a small maple. And that fuzzy thing is a mossy rose gall
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Sleeping Thorn
What looks like straight out of a fairy tale, is actually the cradle of the rose gall wasp (Diplolepis rosae). It is known under various names, such as "rose bedeguar gall " or "mossy gall". It often appears as a mossy growth on roses.
Here, the "moss" has withered away. Only the galls that protect the wasp grubs, and the holes, from which the adult wasps emerge in Spring, are visible.
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