The Tree - Alien ... by blondeblurr
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My Garden would have to be the home for many weird and wonderful specimens of the insect world, but this one seems to take the cake...
I can't even tell, if this is a known Predator or Insect or Fungi, more likely a wood-borer of some kind ?
It's like a gross growth !
At first I had a notion of a broken tree branch and on closer inspection I definitely thought it was an egg-pod from the movie: 'Alien', I also noticed, by bravely touching it much later, that the exo-skeleton (if that's what it was ?) seemed extremely hard.
Just another weird thing to add to the list of wonders, too weird not to share with any of you !
Cheers *BB*
Comments (23)
Wonderful shot.
Looks like it might be a ciceda(sp?) casing. Great shot.
Good shot. Isn't nature wonderful!
Truth is most definately stranger than fiction...
You may have found a rare species of rocket-bug, I hear they tend to steer like cows and smack into trees alot That's why they're so rare.
Exiting, what is this? Great shot of this alien.
Astonishing!! Chipka could write a great story round this!
impressive capture!!
It's like no insect I've ever seen. Cool shots. Let us know if you find out what this is.
Damn' freaky, I hope you had a Pulse-rifle handy or at least a very large can of bug spray ! I reckon it's a wood Wasp lava thingy, buy the way it's busted out of the tree trunk and left it's hollow carapace, before flying off to find another tree victim. Very kool, very weird...that's Mother Nature for you ! Well done & ~Cheers~
That is beyond bizarre. Better buy a few extra pulse rifles from jif3d in case the pod creatures return. I'm going out to buy some right now.
Is it alive? Or is it just a shell? Way weird looking in either case!
terribly creepy creature from another world!
Wow, you caught this event at just the right moment. Really amazing, and he does have a very spooky alien look to him. Those biting things out the front or is it the back look very dangerous. Hubby says he's on organnosed picklehater, found in the Donald Duck comics. LOL.
Fantastic capture!
I must say... you've got a more wondrous array of backyard animalia than I've seen in many botanical gardens... (I used to work in an indoor rainforest... if it was minus 40 outside, it was a constant plus 25 indoors... deep sigh)
This is amazing! This is truly amazing! WOW! I wonder what it is and if it's still there, and who it belongs to! On a level it does recall the sort of thing Sigourney Weaver would be required to fight against, and it's amazing how life here on earth inspires so many aliens...in fact life on earth is pretty alien at times. You're brave for touching it...I like that! I'd have touched it too. I wonder if there are others around somewhere? This is brilliant. You have such a good eye for this kind of thing. Would pulse rifles be a defense against a thing like this if it decided to attack? From the way it looks, what if something gestated in the tree itself and that's the way it made its exit...not exactly a "chest burster" but a "tree burster." Amazing. And Andrea is right, there's a story in this!
This one is way weirder that the bug I found in the backyard last year... watch out for invaders!!!
Very interesting photo.
Un alien qui ne demande que du soleil et de la pluie, un printemps pour la planète Terre...
Wow !!!!! Świetny strzał doskonałe wychwycenie chwili. Piękna praca. Przesyłam pozdrowienia .
With apologies to all the people here who have comments about the wonderful natural world, the world is full of parasites. And all of them are ugly, disgusting and dangerous. By the way, never touch anything you you don't recognize, certainly not with your bare hand. This thing is certainly dangerous, to the tree and possibly to you. Various insect species bite, sting, emit acid and poison. Not something you want to be poking at with a finger. If you can afford a tree doctor or entomoligist to come take a look, I would suggest it. Regardless, you should burn or otherwise destroy it as soon as possible.
Nature is amazing in it's variety, it does look like a carapace of some sort, would be interesting to see the bug that crawled out of it. Thanks for sharing this shot : )