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Insect eggs?

Insect eggs?
Dorset, Ashtabula County, Ohio, USA
May 9, 2019
Size: 1mm-2mm
I do farm work in NE Ohio, and I have been finding these small orange brown organisms while planting onions in the rotting hay mulch. At fist I thought they were seeds, then I noticed they were attached to blades of straw, and thought they might be fungi, but a mycologist I talked to suggested they were more likely insect eggs. I squished one to look at it under a microscope, and it popped like an egg. When I looked at it under the scope it did not have any features like mycelium or spores, etc... They are always in a moist environment near the soil surface.