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Photo#338449
Eggs ?

Eggs ?
Sand Springs, Osage County, Oklahoma, USA
September 28, 2009
Size: 6mm (1/4") mass

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Eggs ? Eggs ?

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Moved from Tortricid Moths.

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Moved from ID Request.

Tortricid eggs
I agree that these look like hatched tortricid eggs. Those three darker things do seem to be some sort of parasitoid larvae... strange that they're bigger than the individual eggs.

 
Remind me of
some images in Coccoidea, would they have any reason to be on the spent eggs?

 
The eggmass seems to be laid
The eggmass seems to be laid on some artificial surface, that should preclude Coccoidea. The darker patch at the top of the mass seems to conform well to the shape and size of one of the moth eggs. So my assumption is that the three darker spots are either parasitized eggs or eggs that failed to hatch.

 
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Yes, the egg mass is laid on an artificial surface....my garage door.

 
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You're right, two of the three dark patches conform to the egg size/shape. The third one, shown enlarged in the second image, is what I was scratching my head about. But maybe that egg is just laid at a different angle, and that's why it looks funny to me?

It looks like a hatched eggma
It looks like a hatched eggmass from a Tortricidae moth. I'm not sure what the darker patches are. They may represent parasitized eggs.

eggs?
I wonder if these are some kind of moth eggs? I found something similar on several kinds of leaves this summer.

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