CLOSED: 1 inch hollow container on side of tree in the NC piedmont

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tendertooth Raleigh, NC(Zone 7b) Apr 10, 2014

What is this thing? My assumption is that a bug made it.

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Flapdoodle Minot, ND Apr 10, 2014

This looks like an old cocoon of a southern flannel moth (Megalopyge opercularis) - see http://www.austinbug.com/survey/2010/pics/4-1-10flannel.jpg
Detailed info on this species can be seen at http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/Creatures/MISC/MOTHS/puss.htm

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tendertooth Raleigh, NC(Zone 7b) Apr 14, 2014

Thank you so much, that looks right!

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