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Stink Bug eggs?
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Stink Bug eggs?
SRER, Santa Rita Mountains, Pima County, Arizona, USA
July 26, 2013
Can you tell if these are stink bug eggs? They seem to lack the concentric circles I see on most others. Thank you. Please feel free to frass if you feel they don't add anything to the BG.
BugGuide Gathering_2013
Contributed by Lon Brehmer and Enriqueta Flores-Guevara on 29 January, 2014 - 1:53pm
Last updated 22 February, 2014 - 3:33pm

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Charley Eiseman, 22 February, 2014 - 3:33pm

Moth eggs
I'm not sure which moth, exactly, but a few have cylindrical eggs like this, and as you say they lack the circular "lid" that stink bug eggs have. Also stink bugs, as far as I know, always lay tight clusters of up to a dozen or so. At full resolution you can also see some scales from the female's abdomen that have rubbed off on some of the eggs.
… Charley Eiseman, 22 February, 2014 - 3:32pm

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