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fried egg
Copyright © 2006 Joyce Gross

fried egg
Sunol Regional Park, Sunol, Alameda County, California, USA
May 20, 2006
Size: about 8mm
"Fried egg" opened up. Most of the round orange eggs rolled out before I got a chance to take this photo. Are the little white things on the right the same things as the larger orange things? or different?

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Contributed by Joyce Gross on 22 May, 2006 - 9:31pm
Last updated 10 August, 2008 - 10:58pm

Moved
Moved from eggs.
… Jeff Hollenbeck, 10 August, 2008 - 10:58pm login or register to post comments

Moving to egg page.
Moving to egg page.
… gehan gehale, 8 August, 2006 - 8:55am login or register to post comments

Nice
images. I agree with Hannah. It looks like a ground spider egg sac with a few fly eggs as well.
… Jeff Hollenbeck, 23 May, 2006 - 7:19pm login or register to post comments

 
There are
also some species of Mantispidae (Neuroptera) that feed on spider eggs - Chen
… Chen Young, 23 May, 2006 - 9:57pm login or register to post comments

 
There are also
ichneumons and chalcidoids that do the same. But I think Jeff is right--the shape is typical of dipteran eggs. They are definitely not the eggs of mantispids, which are stalked and are attached to vegetation (the larvae find egg sacs and bore into them). Pseudogaurax (Chloropidae), which lays its eggs in partially completed egg sacs, would be a likely suspect.
… Charley Eiseman, 28 April, 2008 - 8:34am login or register to post comments

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