Insect ? Identification Please

Hyram
Posted 21/08/2009 - 20:37 Link
Can anyone identify what insect (presumably) these will turn into :

[IMG]http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s30/Hyram_Hare/IMGP0194-1.jpg[/IMG]

Taken with the X70 (macro setting).
Hyram

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Mannesty
Posted 21/08/2009 - 20:46 Link
I can't, and it looks like they may have emerged already. Are the black dots holes? If so, they've gone already.

If they are not holes, you could steal one and put it into a jar and wait for it to emerge to ID it.

Out of interest, many insects lay their eggs on food sources for the emerging young. What plant is the leaf from?
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Edited by Mannesty: 21/08/2009 - 20:47
Hyram
Posted 21/08/2009 - 21:18 Link
Peter,

It is the underside of a leaf from a very young beech tree (planted this year).
Hyram

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George Lazarette
Posted 21/08/2009 - 21:25 Link
Snail eggs are small, round, and white. About the same size as Beluga.

How big are these?

G
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Hyram
Posted 21/08/2009 - 21:28 Link
George,

Very small - Belinda B.'s thumbnail is in the top right hand corner
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George Lazarette
Posted 21/08/2009 - 21:32 Link
Ah, that's what that was. I suspect they are too small for snail eggs then, which anyway are usually buried, I believe.

G
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Mannesty
Posted 21/08/2009 - 21:40 Link
Are the black dots holes?
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Hyram
Posted 21/08/2009 - 21:44 Link
Peter,

The black dots do not seem to be holes but do have the appearance of being, perhaps, future exit holes.

The eggs seem to have been laid in a very distinctive triangular pattern.
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Mannesty
Posted 21/08/2009 - 22:04 Link
If you Google for "insect egg identification" there seems to be a number of fora specialising in just that.
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darlene
Posted 22/08/2009 - 02:26 Link
I say I say Proper Thing to find out what those little creature are!!!

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