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Old 01-30-2015, 11:00 AM
 
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Found this egg shell on my back yard... Just trying to find out - which animal's egg shell is this?
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Old 01-30-2015, 11:09 AM
 
Location: Austin, Texas
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Found this egg shell on my back yard... Just trying to find out - which animal's egg shell is this?
I think this is actually a gall that I see growing on red oaks a lot.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gall
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Old 01-30-2015, 11:09 AM
 
Location: central Austin
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My first guess would be snake.
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Old 01-30-2015, 11:13 AM
 
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That is a gall officially, although we just called them spore-balls as kids. I associate them with pine trees more than with oaks, but I am not really all that familiar with them other than where I used to live south of Houston.
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Old 01-30-2015, 11:17 AM
 
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Yup, an oak gall or oak apple.
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Old 01-30-2015, 01:22 PM
 
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I have quite a few of those on our baby red oaks.
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