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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids (Orthoptera) » Long-horned Orthoptera (Ensifera) » Crickets (Gryllidea) » True Crickets (Gryllidae) » Tree Crickets (Oecanthinae) » Common Tree Crickets (Oecanthus) » unidentified nymphs, eggs or oviposited twigs (Oecanthus unidentified nymphs, eggs or oviposited twigs)
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Insect boring - Oecanthus
Copyright © 2013 racheljared

Insect boring - Oecanthus
Pine Barrens County, New Jersey, USA
October 30, 2009
Holes drilled into little bluestem in the NJ Pine Barrens. About the size of a fine pencil point.
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Contributed by racheljared on 4 November, 2013 - 11:06am
Last updated 1 December, 2013 - 11:13am

These appear to be tree cricket eggs ...
I agree.
… Wisconsin Oecanthinancy, 1 December, 2013 - 11:13am login or register to post comments

 
I've only photographed one ovipositing cicada...
...but as Charley indicates, the markings did appear to look more like longer slits.

… Wisconsin Oecanthinancy, 1 December, 2013 - 11:25am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Charley Eiseman, 30 November, 2013 - 3:46pm login or register to post comments

Oviposition holes
I think Yurika is on the right track, but I suspect these were made by a tree cricket because they are points/punctures rather than slits. I don't think any bird would produce such precise little holes when going after insects inside a stem.
… Charley Eiseman, 15 November, 2013 - 9:32pm login or register to post comments

And more possibility...?
Egg-laying scars by treehopper/leafhopper?
Here is somewhat similar thing image.


And I found scars just like yours on bluestem in my yard last month or so too! (I took picture, but I didn't up here...)
… Yurika Alexander, 4 November, 2013 - 2:21pm login or register to post comments

Bird damage?
This might not be insect damage, but a consequence of birds trying to get at insects inside. I don't know if the holes would have fibers sticking out after being excavated from the outside.

There are several grass feeding flies. Some of them are opportunistic on damaged plants.
… John F. Carr, 4 November, 2013 - 11:49am login or register to post comments

 
Perhaps is appears to be an e
Perhaps is appears to be an exit hole.
… racheljared, 4 November, 2013 - 12:50pm login or register to post comments

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