Oak tree shooting acorns

The oak is shooting these deformed acorns. What is the cause and what can be done? Thanks

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#1 Comment By Liz Baessler On 07/31/2017 @ 5:18 pm

Do they look like the acorns on this page?
http://www.notcot.com/archives/2013/08/gall-wasp.php ^[1]
You might have knopper galls, a symptom of a certain kind of wasp. There are actually wasp larvae growing inside the acorns. It may look really weird, but the presence of the galls won’t harm the tree.

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