snakeandwing: Galls are the coolest things ever.  Or at least…

Thursday, June 12th, 2014

snakeandwing:

Galls are the coolest things ever.  Or at least the coolest things I’ve seen this week.  I know nothing about this particular one, aside from that it’s growing on an elm tree and makes beautiful pink pouches of flower tissue spring from the leaves.  Whoever lives in there is a lucky little bug!

They really are the coolest things ever.

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Tags: insects, insects that anonsally will never see, though I think this image is probably completely safe, in that there are no actual insects visible in it, just the amazing result of an insect (presumably) interacting with a tree, and making that tree produce a weird sort of insect+tree environment, for the insect's larva to live in. Posted in Tumblr by jbc | Permalink | No Comments »