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Forgotten Photo Friday: predator, eggs (Asopinae)
Posted by on January 28, 2011
Insects. Doing Science. Other awesome, geeky stuff.
ooh, such super cool eggs. what an awesome little scene. it’s a complex world, eh? =)
They are by far some of the coolest insect eggs I’ve ever encountered. The photos don’t do them justice, really – they had a real pearlescent blue/purple sheen. Quite amazing…and to add to the complexity, the leaf damage was caused by slug-like sawfly larvae, which I may feature next week 🙂
Wow! Much shiny! They look like splashing drops of liquid, frozen. Makes me look at stink bugs in a new (non-stinky) light.
They were truly beautiful, that’s for sure!
Perhaps the spider is a future planner and is awaiting the hatching of the eggs for a handy little snack.
These are gorgeous eggs, they look like something you would find in the depths of the ocean.
That would be one smart spider! (Or perhaps a stupid one…it’s hanging out over what will soon be a few dozen little hunters…a tad outnumbered?)
I also was reminded of anemones or something of that ilk…
Very cool Geek! Nice spotting!
Thanks Morgan 🙂 They were hard to miss – so SHINY! Also, thanks for alerting me to that guardian.uk blog list – that’s so cool! (I really need to learn Twitter better, I would have missed it otherwise!)
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You should’ve saved this for April Fools Day and done a post on how cool it was that this spider was guarding her eggs (sounding all serious and everything). Okay, that would be mean!
Ted, I am wounded that you would think I’m that devious 😦 No, seriously though, that’s a fun idea. Hehehehe…I’ll have to see if I have any other goodies like that!
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