Do you find them beautiful or gross?
When seeing them for the first time last year I thought they were caterpillars and then this April, I learned that they were Tuberocephalus tsengi or galls😱!!! But that was not it because the galls I saw this April were still green and kind of cute (even though hey were shaped like caterpillars). So yesterday, I was surprised to see them, which from a distance looked like some kind of red flowers but when looked closely were more like armies of red and green caterpillars or even bowels😱!! Don't forget that these galls contain aphids, so don't even think about looking inside😱!
The tree used to produce very beautiful blossoms every spring before being cut down for the redevelopment of the area.
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| Galls on cherry leaves サクラの葉の虫こぶ |
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サクラの葉の虫こぶです。去年、初めて見たときは青虫だと思いました。先月それが青虫ではなく虫こぶだと知りました。でもその時の虫こぶは緑でまだかわいかったんです。昨日見つけたこの虫こぶは、遠くからは赤い花に見えるけど、近くから見ると絡み合う毛虫、いや内臓に見えませんか😱？そして勿論、これ虫こぶですからくれぐれも中を見ようなんて気は起こさないでね😱！
この桜の木、再開発で伐採される前はとってもきれいな満開の桜を付けていました。
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