#egg mass

[jadafitch]

It's salamander season again.

[jandby]

Mantis shrimp, manybar goatfish, mandarin fish, crab, nudi egg mass, flame scallop, sea cucumber, feather duster worms

[nekokabuuuri]

Diamond Squid Eggs ⟡

[onenicebugperday]

@cybercrumbz submitted: Hello ! Found this little set of eggs inside a tree hollow, and in the same tree, this (wasp???) . Also, unrelated, I found a (yellow jacket??) cuddled in a leaf and I know queens will hibernate and I am not sure if this is a yellow jacket or even a queen? Who are these friends ? SE PA

Hi! Both wasps appear to be hibernating queen yellowjackets. The eggs are definitely unrelated. Looks like already-hatched spotted lanternfly eggs, unfortunately.

[rattyexplores]

I love coming across busy scenes like this!

That fuzzy little caterpillar is an unidentified Arctiinae species. Not sure why he would get so close to a spider’s egg mass, but perhaps he felt secure with his long hairs. The spider is also unidentified, but I believe it is from the Cytaea genus, and as you can see, they’re going to be a parent ♥

15/10/20

[thesingingbullfrog]

Wood Frog eggs!

[calosoma-amitch]

White-marked tussock moth female (Orgyia leucostima), Newark DE. September 2017.

This is the same female from the previous post. I placed her cocoon against a hickory tree near my office to see if we could attract a mate, within the same day that she emerged. As the females are wingless, they rely on the production of sex pheromones to attract suitable mates for reproduction. The efficacy of these pheromones are impressive; it only took 15-20 minutes for the female to attract a male and begin laying eggs, which is the spongy white mass beneath her. I am hopeful this mass will hatch in the spring once it warms up. 

[toddjdreyer]

Hyalophora cecropia / Cecropia Moth (7767) eggs photographed at 3X.