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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids (Orthoptera) » Long-horned Orthoptera (Ensifera) » Katydids, Camel Crickets, and relatives (Tettigoniidea) » Katydids (Tettigoniidae) » Phaneropterine Katydids (Phaneropterinae) » Angle-wing Katydids (Microcentrum) » eggs (Microcentrum eggs)
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unkn insect eggs? - Microcentrum
Copyright © 2009 Bob Beatson

unkn insect eggs? - Microcentrum
Arivaca Cienega, Buenos Aires NWR, Pima County, Arizona, USA
February 15, 2009
Found what looks like insect eggs (???) growing on a branch of a small Mahonia sp. Eggs were very hard. Even pinched between fingernails didn't damage them. Each egg was about 2-3mm. Ideas anyone?
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Contributed by Bob Beatson on 25 February, 2009 - 9:23pm
Last updated 25 November, 2013 - 3:01pm

Moved
Moved from Angle-wing Katydids.
… Charley Eiseman, 25 November, 2013 - 3:01pm login or register to post comments

Thanks guys -
never would have guessed what they came from.
… Bob Beatson, 27 February, 2009 - 1:34pm login or register to post comments

yes definitely Katydid eggs
Not sure what species though, but Microcentrum or Scudderia might be likely candidates.
… David J. Ferguson, 26 February, 2009 - 2:25pm login or register to post comments

 
Microcentrum...
Rumor has it that Microcentrum is the only species that deposits its eggs exposed and overlapping in rows like this. I have found conflicting accounts for other genera, possibly due to field guide authors assuming that all katydids do the same thing. Scudderia, at least, inserts its eggs in the edges of leaves.
… Charley Eiseman, 3 March, 2009 - 7:51am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks
Charley - maybe someone will catch the little bugger in the act some day and we'll know for sure.
… Bob Beatson, 3 March, 2009 - 4:26pm login or register to post comments

They look a lot like katydid eggs I had on my patio....
...but I'm not an expert. BTW, most of yours in this photo look very plump!
… Wisconsin Oecanthinancy, 25 February, 2009 - 9:38pm login or register to post comments

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