Insect and Spider Identification: CLOSED: Bee's hives, whose species does this belong?, 1 by pford1854

pford1854 wrote:
Hi Kim! (Lily_love)
I could be wrong, but I think that your Hawthorne tree is in front of another tree with the blooms (like a Bradford Pear) Looks like your Hawthrone has nice green leaves, but the pear tree is the one with all the flowers. Are we looking at two different trees?

I'm with Claypa -- I also think the 'thing' in the tree is a very large Mantid egg case.
You could go see it again, and clip off the branch and bring it back to your place. :^)
You could have free mantises. Cool.

Paul