Thursday, September 30, 2010

Whose Eggs are These?

Eggs

The other day, while on my morning walkabout, I noticed these strange little eggs on the stem of my Pennisetum spatheolatum. I can't figure out for sure what type of eggs they are. There was a ladybug perched on the blossom at the end of the stem...but that could be a coincidence. I did a Google search and most of the photos show ladybug eggs being a sort of yellowish-orange and are laid in sheets of a few dozen on the underside of leaves, not circling stems like this, and not in this quantity! Does anybody know what type of eggs these are...just curious.

Ladybug1

UPDATE:
I checked them again today, just to see if I could get a better pic, and the eggs have actually turned blue...how weird!
BlueEggs2

5 comments:

  1. Have no clue, hope someone else is able to id these mystery eggs for you. :)

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  2. I have never seen anything like it, but I am eagerly awaiting the answer.

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  3. That is really interesting! I haven't seen anything like that before.

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  4. I don't know what they are, and I'm curious, too. I am pretty sure they aren't ladybug eggs. Keep checking on them to see if there are other changes.

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  5. Fascinating! Feel free to link this post to my Creature Feature meme published today!

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