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Reply #15 - Sep 18th, 2014 at 1:23pm
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that was a fun and interesting walkabout, Joe!  Thanks.  If I can't get out and dig, might as well walkabout online with you.
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Re: Walkin'n JC
Reply #16 - Sep 18th, 2014 at 3:58pm
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I just wanted to comment on the "circular" or more accurately spherical shapes you photographed.  I don't believe it's a burrowing type of insect or otherwise that created those simply because I would expect there to be a tunnel and not a sphere.  Perhaps they were those puff bomb shrooms that has long since ripened and died and your seeing the decayed remnants.   Huh
  
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Reply #17 - Sep 18th, 2014 at 7:39pm
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Those circular indentations are reminiscent of Potter's wasps' nurseries.  It looks like the remains of dead spiders (their nursery food) are still in some of the pots.

Just my 2 cents.

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Re: Walkin'n JC
Reply #18 - Sep 18th, 2014 at 10:24pm
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Well, I haven't been able to find any pics like them
searching wasp and beetle nests on the web.
Maybe someone dumped a pile of acorns there as deer bait last year
and the nuts have rotted away?
Here's a little closer pic. It looks like there is still some sort of thin lining
on the interior of the circles that is what first made me think of a wasp.
I dunno. Wink

I thought for sure Botany Becky would know!  Smiley
  
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Reply #19 - Sep 19th, 2014 at 6:20am
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perhaps,just simply bubbles created by rotting vegetation,or oxidation of elements plowed beneath.have seen this before where water has pooled ,resulting in algae,bubbles were produced beneath algae,than when water evaporated,something similar to your photos was end result.maybe scott
  
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Reply #20 - Sep 19th, 2014 at 8:19am
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I think this might be a species of "mud dauber" wasps.  They would actually build the circular structures themselves, the blackened interiors being remnants of organic material also brought in by the wasps.  Not positive though, but seems like the most logical explanation to me.
  
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Reply #21 - Feb 16th, 2015 at 3:00pm
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That is acorns that were pushed into the soil then rotted away used to see it around my Grandparents house in Fuquay all the time. They are the smaller acorns from pin oaks.
  
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Re: Walkin'n JC
Reply #22 - Feb 16th, 2015 at 8:39pm
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Have to agree.
I think a hunter dumped a pile there to lure deer, and I can't find any ground wasp nests to match.
And I sure don't want to argue acorns with someone from the OakCity.  Wink
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Reply #23 - Feb 19th, 2015 at 4:03pm
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Thanks Joe. Also, sorry for the grammar, "That is acorns"  must have been typing too fast Smiley
  
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Reply #24 - Feb 19th, 2015 at 11:36pm
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No problem, Oak City, I just figgered you was from down that ways. Roll Eyes
  
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Reply #25 - Feb 20th, 2015 at 12:37pm
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Me being the down home boy I am, just thought he left out his 'thar' as in 'That thar is acorns!' - which sounds perfectly acceptable to me.

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