Found this laying eggs on my aluminum fence pole
Location: North shore suburbs of Chicago
August 15, 2011 8:25 am
I saw this colorful insect laying eggs on a pole in our backyard. It moved slowly and left a pod of about 10-15 tightly stuck together eggs in about 4 rows. Any idea what this insect is?
Signature: Bill Marcus
Stink Bug Lays Eggs
Hi Bill,
This is a Stink Bug and eggs laid in that manner are very typical of Stink Bugs. This sure looks to us like Banasa dimiata, a species BugGuide reports “from the entire United States, southern Canada and northern Mexico.” BugGuide also indicates: “Many different possible host plants are listed for this species, including birch (Betula spp.), bearberry (Arctostaphylos spp.) and chokeberry (Photinia spp.).”
Daniel, wow I had no idea that stink bugs were that colorful or relatively (to my preconceived vision) large. Thank you for the quick info
Bill
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Eggs? Galls? Magic space bubbles? A mystery!
Location: Toledo, OH
August 1, 2011 6:33 pm
Hey there! Oakworm (or so I think I remember) season is just starting around here, and most of the small oak trees at the park are ALREADY defoliated! Oy, it’ll be a bad year. Anyhow, I am curious if these are eggs coating the underside of the leaf or something else. It was very pretty, in a creepy sort of way.
Signature: Katy
Oakworms and Eggs
Hi Katy,
These Oakworms are the caterpillars of moths in the genus Anisota (see BugGuide). When they are really plentiful, Oakworms can defoliate trees. It is our theory that the eggs, yes they are eggs, in the photos are also Oakworm eggs, but alas, when they hatch, they will not have anything to eat. Thanks for sending us your great photographs.
Oakworms and Eggs
unknown bug
Location: Lincolnton, GA
August 2, 2011 10:30 pm
8/1/11
These started showing up a week ago a few at a time and have increased to hundreds today (pic 1). Some have laid what seems to be an egg pattern similar to the Harlequin Bug (pic 2).
Thanks
Signature: Jeff McKinney
Lablab Bugs
Hi Jeff,
Your home has been invaded by a recent introduced Invasive Exotic species, the Bean Plataspid, Megacopta cribraria, also knows as the Globular Stink Bug or Lablab Bug. The Bean Plataspid was recently introduced to Georgia from India or China, where it is native. It has since been reported in South Carolina as well, according to BugGuide which reports: “in Oct. 2009 was invading homes in large numbers in GA”. The University of Georgia Cooperative Education website has a very informative PDF entitled Megacopta cribraria as a Nuisance Pest. The Lablab Bug is known to invade homes when cool weather sets in.
Lablab Bugs
According to BugGuide, known food plants are legumes including soybeans, and though this Invasive Exotic species has many negative attributes, a benefit is that its primary host plant is reported to be kudzu, owing to yet another common name, Kudzu Bug. If you have kudzu growing nearby, you might want to consider trying to control the invasive vine before the insect population reaches an uncontrollable level, though your photo indicates that time may have already passed. The Nature Closeups photography blog has some great photos of the Lablab Bug.
Eggs of the Lablab Bug
Mystery Moth
Location: Niagara Falls, Ontario
July 13, 2011 4:36 pm
Hi,
We’re trying to identify this moth – it was about 1.5 to 2 inches wide.
Thanks!
Signature: Rob
Blinded Sphinx
Hi Rob,
We continue to get photos of the Blinded Sphinx, Paonias excaecatus, and it appears as though this female has laid a green egg on the right side of your photo. See Sphingidae of the Americas for additional information and photos.
Thanks – that’s it! I can’t believe we didn’t even notice the egg.
Rob
what is this bug?
Location: Minneapolis NC
July 8, 2011 8:45 pm
Found this on my back window porch area, it looks like a fly with fly eggs, hope it can be identified. thanks, tklb2011
Signature: tklb2011
Mysterious Things
Dear tklb2011,
We have no idea what these mysterious things are, but they do seem to resemble eggs. Hopefully our readership may be able to contribute some information.
Eggs or Not???
Ed. Note: July 13, 2011
We received a comment from Jessi indicating that these might be Moth Eggs from the family Geometridae.
Green Lacewing eggs
Location: Naperville, IL
June 27, 2011 9:49 pm
Dear Daniel~
I searched but could not find any photos on your site of green lacewing eggs, which are truly remarkable! I found many of these odd (1/4-inch total length) ”footballs on filaments” the other day in the flower umbels and on the edges of the leaves of asclepias syriaca (common milkweed)that I grow for raising Monarchs. I must admit that I panicked at first, thinking my milkweed had some spores growing on it that would be detrimental to the Monarch caterpillars. But green lacewing larvae are voracious aphidlions, and they will consume spider mites as well. Now that I know what they are, not only am I happy to have them, I am relieved I did not rush to remove them from the plants. There are so many fascinating bugs out there! Regards,
Signature: Dori Eldridge
Green Lacewing Egg
Hi Dori,
We had to dig deep into our archives, back to 2007, to find an image of Green Lacewing Eggs. We love your close-up photograph. Lacewings, and several other Neuropterans, lay eggs on stalks to help the young survive. Hatchling Lacwings are so ravenous upon hatching, that they might feed upon their siblings if they didn’t have the distraction of having to climb down the stalk after hatching. Milkweed surely does produce a fascinating ecosystem. We have gotten very busy with work and our email inbox is filling with unanswered letters, so we are very happy we stumbled upon your submission before it got buried too far under more recent submissions.
Green Lacewing Egg
Teeny Hatchlings on Rose Leaf
Location: Philadelphia, PA
June 15, 2011 10:44 pm
Dear Bugman,
I found these little critters on the underside of a rose bush June 11, and they were actively hatching from their eggs. My thumb in the photo is a good point of reference for size. Any idea what they are?
Signature: ro
Brown Marmorated Stink Bug Hatchlings
Hi ro,
We just finished, minutes ago, another similar posting which we identified as Brown Marmorated Stink Bug Hatchlings. You should read that posting for additional information and links. We believe your newly hatched individuals will soon darken and here is an image on BugGuide that shows the pale coloration of hatchlings. The Brown Marmorated Stink Bug is an invasive exotic species and in our opinion, you should quickly dispatch these hatchlings if you want to prevent an invasion of your garden and your home.
Thank you so much! I’m a new convert to What’s That Bug. I’m so excited that all the bug photos I’ve been taking in my Philadelphia gardens are going to go to good use now.
The work/play that you’re doing with this website is invaluable. Keep it up!
Peas, love, & stinkbugs;
ro
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