I thought I had busted up all of those chimneys I was talking about yesterday, but apparently I hadn't, so I grabbed a clod and took these pictures:
Any idea what they could be? EG...I promise they're not crawdad holes or no self respecting crawdad I've ever come across. ;)
The morning comes early and "it's cruel! It's cruel" as stated by the girl when her light was switched on. Sweet gardening dreams.
It's a bit hard to tell from your photos, but you might just have yourself a collection of bird's nest fungi - similar to a mushroom (different family though), where the spores are collected into masses (the "eggs" of the nest) and dispersed when a raindrop hits the nest. Cool things, to us fungus geeks :)
ReplyDeleteGoogle images of "bird's nest fungi" to see if those are similar to what you have!
That's it, that's it, that's it!!!!!!!!! Fantastic job, K! Woohoo!!!!! Thank you. Mystery solved.
ReplyDeleteYou can all go about your normal business now. Woohoo!!!!!!
So that is what they are. i always wondered what it was. They are always in my lettuce bed - never by my squash. Thanks for inquiring. Now I can go about my other business. thanks.
ReplyDeleteBird nest fungi... interesting.
ReplyDeleteYep! Same things I had. Wonderful fun, those fungi.
ReplyDeleteGlad you found an answer. Though yours gave you a scare, at least your funky fungi don't look like vomit... :-)
ReplyDeleteI've been wondering what those were for years! How wonderful!
ReplyDeleteGlad I could help!
ReplyDeleteOh, and I forgot to mention - they are 100% harmless to your plants, so no worries about leaving them be :)
Whoa...that came from a bird's nest? Nature continually creeps me out. lol
ReplyDeleteNo, KM, It's a fungus that just looks like a bird's nest.
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