I did a little home research today. I wanted to see if I could figure out just by looking at an acorn if it had something in it. I had a hunch about the Tortricoidea Moth Caterpillar I found
here so I collected a bunch of acorns and my hunch proved to be true. Notice in this pic the acorn has a hole in it but it has been resealed from the inside. The second pic shows the caterpillar after I cracked it open and you can also see the hole sealed from the inside. The third pic shows an acorn with a hole but not sealed. Every acorn I collected that had the sealed hole had one of these caterpillars in it but the ones where the hole wasn't sealed had nothing.
Contributed by
Sam Houston on 27 January, 2008 - 8:31pm
Last updated 14 March, 2008 - 3:17pm