What is this? Tree disease or critter? What do I do to find out what this is and how to get rid of it? The leaves on my maple tree have these little white wormie looking things sticking up out of them. They don't move, kind of hard. I don't know how to get a photo on here or would include photo for you. I don't know if this is a disease of the tree or a critter, but it doesn't seem to move. [img]http://[/img] photobucket

Hi FranBrad! Welcome to the greatest gardening forum on the net! There are some free websites you can upload your pictures to. One of the more popular ones that comes to mind is photobucket.com. Once you upload your picture, come here to post, and there will be a button down below that says "URL" (you may have to hit 'full reply form' first, if you don't see the URL button). When you hit 'URL', you'll be able to paste the address of your picture so that we can have a look see!

I'm kind of new to gardening, but someone may be along that can id your disease/critter problem without a pic. It's much easier with a pic though

Thanks for the help Mary! I will try it and see what happens.

You bet! We'll be here when ya get back

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You did it! One last thing to do. Sign in to your account, go to 'account options' and then click 'yes' under 'make public?'.

smile!

Yep, you gotta make it public
so we alllllll

where do I go to do that? Guess my brain isn't functioning too well right now, I can't find where to do it.

I found it!! It's public now!

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Try this one more time. Let me know if it doesn't work.

It worked! Sorry I wasn't here when you had questions - I was out pitching hay LOL!

Lemme have a look see. Eww. That woulda freaked me out. It looks like some kinda larvae that's hatching. I know that some bugs will leave 'galls' on leaves (I have some on an oak tree here) which are egg sacs. They're usually harmless, but look ugly. That would be my guess as to what it is. Hopefully someone else will come by and add their .02c