This morning I went out to look at the garden plantings I had done yesterday and found this little mystery on top of a table on my porch. It looks to me like a roach's abdomen (maybe one of those small roaches one commonly finds when digging around in the soil). What looks to me like a roach nymph was struggling to emerge from it. I have many questions going through my head: Like how did this end up on the table? Did a bird or lizard eat the front half of a pregnant roach? I was pretty sure roaches lay egg cases, could the egg case survive and come to maturity inside the dead abdomen? or is it something else perhaps a parasite or a strange egg case. (although I don't think so) Any thought and comments are welcomed. Don't know if any thing in the pic is actually IDable and once I get some thoughts on the mystery it may be frassed.