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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Antlions, Lacewings, and Allies (Neuroptera) » Lacewings and Allies (Hemerobiiformia) » Green Lacewings (Chrysopidae) » unidentified eggs
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Butterfly Egg
Copyright © 2008 Darcy Ashton

Butterfly Egg
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, USA
September 5, 2007
I kept checking back to see the larvae that would emerge but never found him. The egg had a long silk stalk that attached it to the flower.
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Contributed by Darcy Ashton on 2 February, 2008 - 11:30am
Last updated 29 October, 2008 - 11:27pm

Moved
Moved from Green Lacewings.
… John R. Maxwell, 29 October, 2008 - 11:27pm login or register to post comments

Lacewing?
Lacewings have stalked eggs like this. Not sure if certain other groups do as well...
… Stephen_WV, 2 February, 2008 - 11:39am login or register to post comments

 
I think you are right. I look
I think you are right. I looked through other photos taken that same day and found one of a lacewing larva. I didn't put them together before now. Thank you.
… Darcy Ashton, 2 February, 2008 - 11:50am login or register to post comments

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