"What a thousand acres of Silphiums looked like when they tickled the bellies of the buffalo is a question never again to be answered, and perhaps not even asked." -Aldo Leopold
Cypress Twig Gall Midge (Taxodiomyia cupressiananassa)
An immature gall on bald cypress (Taxodium distichum) caused by the Cypress Twig Gall Midge (Taxodiomyia cupressiananassa) photographed in Bollinger County, MO on 08/Aug/2021.