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spider egg sac?
Copyright © 2016 jim sogaard

spider egg sac?
Pine Brook, Isanti County, Minnesota, USA
September 6, 2016
Size: 9 mm minus extensions
On wet inner surface of loose bark on ash stump in wooded swamp.
Contributed by jim sogaard on 10 September, 2016 - 4:21pm

A single small wasp emerged t
A single small wasp emerged through an evenly round exit hole a bit less than 1mm in diameter on or about May 5, 2017. Unfortunately the wasp escaped. On May 12 I opened the sac and found it mostly apparently excavated, revealing a vague honeycomb-like pattern on the bottom.
… jim sogaard, 12 May, 2017 - 11:39am

Moved
Moved from ID Request.

Very similar to this one:

… Ken Wolgemuth, 10 September, 2016 - 4:28pm

 
Thank you, Ken.
Thank you, Ken.
… jim sogaard, 10 September, 2016 - 4:31pm

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