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Assassin Bug Eggs?
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Assassin Bug Eggs?
Middleton, Hardeman County, Tennessee, USA
June 17, 2017
I have searched the site, Google images and webpages and the closest thing I can come up with is assassin bug eggs.
Contributed by Don Harris on 18 June, 2017 - 9:21am
Last updated 16 July, 2019 - 8:30am

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I bet you are right. They certainly look like tabanid eggs, but I've never seen a mass covered with a chalky material before.
… Charley Eiseman, 16 July, 2019 - 8:30am

Hi, Do you have an idea of t
Hi,
Do you have an idea of the size of this egg mass?
I found a similar one in southern France: eggs in one layer, deposited vertically on a leaf, covered with a kind of chalky material...
Diptera larvae emerged from the eggs I reared, and then Scelionids emerged.
You can see the egg mass and a larva there:
https://diptera.info/forum/viewthread.php?thread_id=68048
So maybe yours could be a Tabanid egg mass?
… H. Dumas, 16 July, 2019 - 4:19am

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