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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » Unidentified Spider Egg Sacs, Webs, Retreats, and Droppings
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Egg Cases?
Copyright © 2013 Nancy Kent

Egg Cases?
Radford, Virginia, USA
May 8, 2013
Are these insect egg cases? If so, what kind, please?
I found them in a Red Cedar (Juniperus virginiana) tree.

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Egg Cases? Egg Cases? Egg Cases?
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Contributed by Nancy Kent on 10 May, 2013 - 9:34pm
Last updated 5 June, 2013 - 5:48pm

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… John F. Carr, 5 June, 2013 - 5:48pm login or register to post comments

Spider egg sacs
Possibly basilica spider... was this attached to a still-intact plant, or was this a bundle of separate bits of dead plant material (looks like juniper, maybe) found hanging from, or under, the plant?
… Charley Eiseman, 1 June, 2013 - 7:11pm login or register to post comments

 
The tree was Eastern Red Cedar
and it was alive and green except where Cedar Apple Rust had caused brown areas. I think that the bundle was attached to the tree near one of the rust "blobs" but cannot remember for sure. I looked back at other images of the tree and rust but could not tell for sure.
… Nancy Kent, 1 June, 2013 - 7:51pm login or register to post comments

Cocoons, maybe?
They remind me of a cocoon. I think sawflies make cocoons like that.
… Stephen Tapsak, 20 May, 2013 - 8:26pm login or register to post comments

 
Yes,
that may be a possibility. Thanks, Stephen.
… Nancy Kent, 20 May, 2013 - 10:18pm login or register to post comments

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