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New Year, New 'What Is It?' (January 2019)

Posted January 07, 2019 11:00 AM
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We're resolved to stump you with these! This could be our toughest one yet.

What is it? (Besides kind of gross-looking.)

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01/07/2019 12:15 PM

A spiny oak slug caterpillar with eggs?

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01/07/2019 10:38 PM

There's more to it -

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01/14/2019 8:32 AM

This is correct. Braconid wasp cocoons to be exact. source

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Re: New Year, New 'What Is It?' (January 2019)

01/07/2019 12:40 PM

Nature is so cruel.

So is Google search.

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Re: New Year, New 'What Is It?' (January 2019)

01/07/2019 1:16 PM

This is so repulsive that I can't look at it. All those yellow tubes, EEUUWW.
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Re: New Year, New 'What Is It?' (January 2019)

01/07/2019 1:33 PM

I hear they're great when deep fried.
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01/07/2019 1:58 PM

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01/07/2019 2:24 PM

My that is a big one....

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Re: New Year, New 'What Is It?' (January 2019)

01/10/2019 11:29 AM

I will pay you $100 if you post a video of you chomping that down. The offer is withdrawn if I can stomach a late night kebab in my hometown.

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Re: New Year, New 'What Is It?' (January 2019)

01/07/2019 11:08 PM

Dang it. Forgot to feed Fred and he got into my mac & cheese again.

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01/07/2019 11:20 PM

Cactus blossoms?

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01/07/2019 11:24 PM

Caterpillar sure is cactus -

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Re: New Year, New 'What Is It?' (January 2019)

01/07/2019 11:30 PM

Yea, I missed the link in #1. Amazing what you find in nature.

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Re: New Year, New 'What Is It?' (January 2019)

01/07/2019 11:59 PM

I don't see anything gross here at all .

Nature in it's beauty has produced two different species, dependent upon each other to evolve.

This is the work of millennia.
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Re: New Year, New 'What Is It?' (January 2019)

01/08/2019 11:09 AM

Cannolis! Yum!

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Re: New Year, New 'What Is It?' (January 2019)

01/08/2019 1:37 PM

So I was wondering how Sushi was grown all these years. Its a not yet ripe sushi plant in process!!

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Re: New Year, New 'What Is It?' (January 2019)

01/10/2019 11:32 AM

It looks a liittle bit like part of a circulid reef. Probably wrong, but worth a few minutes googling.

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Re: New Year, New 'What Is It?' (January 2019)

01/21/2019 6:59 AM

I looks like my wife's hair curler basket.

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