Over the course of several years here I have learned that ground beetles congregate under small sections of asphault rip-rap on a particular slope of the property in the springtime. They were there last Sunday and I began wondering whether these hotspots were recognized places to "hook up" with members of the opposite sex. Then I noticed the eggs.

These eggs may very well belong to something in a different arthropod order, like the eggs I watched daily for several weeks hoping for an interesting beetle, only to discover they were Opiliones or harvestman eggs :-) However, the presence of actual beetles this time makes me hopeful that they are related.