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White Cottony Egg Case? Spider?

White Cottony Egg Case? Spider?
Del Norte Coast Redwoods State Park, Del Norte County, California, USA
August 7, 2009
On berry (Rubus sp.) leaf in second growth redwood forest along Trestle Trail near Mill Creek Campground.

EggSac?
I found one of these today on the backside of a cucumber leaf. I’ve gotten nowhere looking for an ID. Did you ever find out who it belongs to?

Found one today
I found one today on a tomato plant in our garden. Sorry to say I didn't take a picture before I showed it to my nephew and it got destroyed.

But it looked just the same -- bubbly cotton. It was firm, but soft, and when it was opened there were eggs inside that resembled small rice. Maybe that could help identify it more?

I've seen Orbweaver sacs before, and I've never seen one so fluffy. We have an infestation of orange and black stink bugs as well. Don't know if any of this info can help, but I am interested in knowing what poor bugs got killed today by my nephew.

Moved
Moved from Frass.

Frassed
Moved from ID Request.

 
Hmm...
Hi, Charley! I am a newer user so forgive me if I don't know the protocols and such for this type of thing... but I know there is an Unidentified Spider Egg Sacs section. I wonder if this one could go there in case a future submission can help solve the mystery?

 
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I s'pose you're right, there's no harm in keeping it around, for the time being anyway. I don't think there's much of a chance if it getting further than "probably Araneidae," but it does help to illustrate the variety that spider egg sacs come in. I guess I was thinking we already had a bunch of similar images, but apparently we don't--not in that section, anyway.

Egg sac
It does appear to be a spider egg sac; I would guess some kind of orbweaver (Araneidae).

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