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Eggs, close up - Araneus diadematus
Copyright © 2012 R. Berg

Eggs, close up - Araneus diadematus
Alameda County, California, USA
November 25, 2012
Size: 1.05 mm each
This is part of the surface of the egg mass. Later, to measure the eggs, after many of them had fallen off the egg mass, I used a ruler to push the loose ones together on paper and photographed the ruler's edge up against the eggs. A row of 19 eggs occupied a 2-cm length of the ruler.

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Contributed by R. Berg on 25 November, 2012 - 7:32pm
Last updated 27 November, 2012 - 11:43pm

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