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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Longhorn and Leaf Beetles (Chrysomeloidea) » Leaf Beetles (Chrysomelidae) » Case-bearing Leaf Beetles (Cryptocephalinae) » Clytrini
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insect eggs
Copyright © 2006 tom murray

insect eggs
Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
June 5, 2006
Size: 1.3mm
These eggs have strings attached, and look like little pine cones. Found these on an aspen leaf. Any ideas what kink they might be?
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Contributed by tom murray on 5 June, 2006 - 10:41pm
Last updated 9 December, 2008 - 12:17am

Moved
Moved from The Casebearers. The pattern of the egg covering seems to indicate Clytrini, at least. Maybe John can clarify his comment. The host plant may indicate genus or species...
… Charley Eiseman, 9 December, 2008 - 12:17am login or register to post comments

Great
These are great little items. You can use this photo on your Christmas cards.

Hope this location was close enough you can go back and check on these. I'll be something interesting hatches out.

--Stephen

Stephen Cresswell
Buckhannon, WV
www.stephencresswell.com
… Stephen_WV, 6 June, 2006 - 5:38am login or register to post comments

 
I won't be able to get back in time
I wish I had collected them, but the only 2 containers I had with me were filled with 12 beetles.
… tom murray, 6 June, 2006 - 7:13am login or register to post comments

 
To me they look somewhat like
what this beetle (below) was laying. You also photographed this species mating nearby - what do you think?

… Hannah Nendick-Mason, 6 June, 2006 - 7:40am login or register to post comments

 
This is Coscinoptera dominica
This is Coscinoptera dominicana.
… John Randall Watts, 8 July, 2008 - 4:52pm login or register to post comments

 
Do you mean the eggs or the beetle image I posted?
I see that name listed as a synonym on our info page for the beetle. Are the eggs distinctive enough to be named as that species?
… Hannah Nendick-Mason, 8 July, 2008 - 10:08pm login or register to post comments

 
The impression I got
from the one laying eggs is they were a cluster of individual eggs.
… tom murray, 6 June, 2006 - 8:07am login or register to post comments

 
See also
the graphic on this site with a little string attached to a similar looking structure.
… Hannah Nendick-Mason, 6 June, 2006 - 8:26am login or register to post comments

 
I guess my impression was wrong:-)
You're attachment with the string on the egg case sure looks like it. I'll move it to to the subfamily page. Thanks Hannah.
… tom murray, 6 June, 2006 - 3:07pm login or register to post comments

 
Very cool shot -
I wish I could photograph things this tiny!
… Hannah Nendick-Mason, 6 June, 2006 - 5:21pm login or register to post comments

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