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Eggs?
Copyright © 2009 Steve Scott

Eggs?
Fairfield, IL, Wayne County, Illinois, USA
May 21, 2009
Turned over this egg mass with a small centipede wrapped around it. The centipede disappeared before I could fetch my camera. Would these be prey or the eggs of the centipede itself?
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Contributed by Steve Scott on 21 May, 2009 - 1:41pm

Centipede eggs
Some geophilomorph centipedes (among others) do guard their eggs like that, and some have spherical eggs, so I think you're right in calling these centipede eggs.
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