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What is this cotton wool like substance ?

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  • 16-05-2011 3:21pm
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    Connacht
    Registered Users Posts: 447 ✭✭


    I saw this in a hedge by the seaside last year on June bank holiday weekend. Is it the work of some kind of insect ?


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    mgwhelan
    Registered Users Posts: 328 ✭✭mgwhelan


    bog cotton


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    Connacht
    Registered Users Posts: 447 ✭✭Connacht


    Thanks mg, but it isn't bog cotton. Bog Cotton is a grass-like sedge that grows on the open bogs, with its own stem.


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    Rainbowsend
    Registered Users Posts: 938 ✭✭✭Rainbowsend


    Looks like some kind of eggs (insect) if you look really closely you can see tiny black dots in it, not sure what though.


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    Mothman
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    I think it may be plant seeds such as willow caught in the hedge. The brown bits are the remains of the seed heads.


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    Connacht
    Registered Users Posts: 447 ✭✭Connacht


    Yeah, I just don't know. The first picture shows the full extent of it. The hedge is well over 100m long, but the stuff was only in this 1m wide stretch. I would think that rules out wind blow, no ? I should have investigated closer, but didn't have the time.


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    swifts need our help!
    Registered Users Posts: 944 ✭✭✭swifts need our help!


    yes it's willow seeds


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