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Brochymena - Brochymena sulcata
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Brochymena - Brochymena sulcata
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
September 18, 2008
These live on my lilac bush and I submitted an immature last year to the Guide. I was wondering if the blob underneath this insect might be an egg case. I understand it is supposed to be barrel-shaped. Maybe it's just bird doo.

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Contributed by Carol Davis on 18 January, 2009 - 7:03pm
Last updated 24 September, 2009 - 12:39pm

Brochymena sulcata
Donald Thomas det.

Moved from Brochymena.
… v belov, 24 September, 2009 - 12:39pm

the head suggests 4-pustulata
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… v belov, 16 September, 2009 - 7:41am

That would be the latter....
Bird doo-doo it is. Brochymena do not have egg 'cases,' and probably not even clusters. I think females deposit eggs individually in bark crevices.
… Eric R. Eaton, 19 January, 2009 - 6:35pm

 
Thanks, Eric.
Thanks for the info. After hanging around Bugguide for the past few years, I look at bird doo-doo a little more closely. No telling when it will turn into an insect.
… Carol Davis, 19 January, 2009 - 10:37pm

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