I found this on a rake handle on my porch near my moth sheet. Another mass was on a dry oak twig in a kindling barrel.
There are about 200 eggs in this mass. I accidentally smashed some of the eggs on the twig and was surprised that they had a strong smell of pine! Could the brown sticky stuff between the eggs be derived somehow from pine trees? IF not, it means that
the bug itself produces this olfactory mimicry.
(A large wheelbug took up residency on my porch for about two weeks during December.)