Identification: Alien eggs growing in my garden

these things began as small white mushroom like eggs but have become larger in the last week or so, i didnt think much of them untill i touched one when i was digging. Tt split in half and the stuff inside began to grow it was the size of a tennis ball and it began to grow very quickly and within a minute it was in a web like ball the size of a soccer ball, with black mucus running of it. i coulding belive it. please help

 

Good to see another Aussie on here!!
That looks wierd, I have never seen that before??

Ed

 

You are so lucky. It is a cage fungus.

 

Thank you emmysemionovas for posting those amazing pics.Well done tipularia. I learn something new all the time here!

 

hi im emmy's brother just wandering if the Clathrus cibarius are bad for my garden and are they poisonous

 

Harmless, and helpful in breaking down compost into plant nutrients. I'd not advise eating it, though.

 

Yep, very cool photographs!