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 milkweed picture - Eumenes

milkweed picture - Eumenes
Falmouth, Maine, USA
July 27, 2017
We saw these mud like balls on the underside of a milkweed leaf.My first thought is a gall of some kind. There are two, they seem to be made from mud, they are fairly sturdy as a child touched them and they did not crumble. The disc shapes are intriguing.

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