![]() ![]() (These pictures and information were found on this website. Something unique, maybe useless and silly - but learn some new little tid-bit. Sometimes if you gather up a quantity of acorns and put them into a plastic bag or bucket and wait until the next day, you will see many of these little white worms in the bottom of the container - and many little holes in the acorns!Īnyway - my challenge to you is to go out and learn something new today. And you can tell if a flying squirrel has had a little snack because the acorn will have been eaten into - the squirrel really doesn't eat the acorn itself, but rather chews into it until he finds the grub worm. Anyway, you can tell that the worm has eaten his way out of the acorn when you pick one up because there will be a small hole in the acorn - that is where the grub came out of. You hardly ever see them in the wild because they are nocturnal, but there are millions of them around here. This little worm is a favorite food of flying squirrels, which are the most common squirrel in the Ozarks. After the acorn falls from the tree the worm eats its way out of the acorn. ![]() It seems that inside most acorns there is a very tiny grub worm. My first inclination was GET THAT OUT OF MY HOUSE! But quickly I decided to look up on the internet (so grateful for this invention - really - thank you Al Gore) and learned in a few minutes that it was a grub and had come out of the acorn. This morning when he got up he said, "Ew mom - there's something in with my acorns!!!" Sure enough - there was a grub wiggling around the container. He had a little plastic container that he put them in when he got home. How did I learn that? Well yesterday when I was taking pictures of my friend Alecia's kids in the mountains Gabe gathered up a few acorns to take home. Today I learned that most acorns have a grub living inside of them. Acorn or Knopper gall wasp ( Andricus quercuscalicis. If you fry them, fry on low heat or else they.er pop. It does not (surprisingly) have any of the tannins in it that make acorns themselves bitter without processing. Make a natural grub repellent spray by combining 2 tablespoons of neem oil, 2 teaspoons of liquid soap, and a gallon of water. Easy to ID as it is the only grub you will find in an acorn. It is very popular among organic gardeners as a natural and healthy pest control home remedy. Once they get their fill, they drill out leaving small exit holes. At some point in the summer the larvae hatch and feed well protected by the nuts outer shell. Adults lay eggs on the young nuts which are then contained inside the developing blossom. ![]() The spring generation forms inconspicuous galls in oak buds. You can also use neem oil for grubs in the garden. Acorn weevils and a range of husk flies will target nuts in mid summer. The galls are yellowish green or red and often remain attached to fallen leaves. , is a small, brown beetle belonging to the order Coleoptera, the family Curculionidae, and the genus Curculio 1. I've found with having 2 little boys I am learning something new each and every day. Oak cherry gall wasp ( Cynips quercusfolii) forms spherical pithy galls up to 20mm in diameter on the underside of oak leaves in late summer-autumn. ![]()
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