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The Blobby, Dazzling World of Insect Eggs Can you identify any of these bug eggs?
By Tao Tao Holmes JUNE 24, 2016
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-blobby-dazzling-world-of-insect-eggs



A brilliant green metallic wood-boring beetle laying what look like tiny chicken eggs. (Photo: pattara puttiwong/Shutterstock.com)


The eggs of a Vietnamese or Annan walking stick (Medauroidea extradentata). (Photo: Geza Farkas/Shutterstock.com)


Likely the eggs of the horned squash bug (Anasa tristis).(Photo: aroonrojkul/Shutterstock.com)


Eggs belonging to the large white butterfly (Pieris brassicae). (Photo: Волков Владислав Петрович/CC BY-SA 3.0)


These tiny, tawny eggs belong to the red-shouldered stink bug (Thyanta custator). (Photo: Therese15/Shutterstock.com)



(Photo: Nik Br/Shutterstock.com)
These eggs, resembling a ninja's iron spike ball, belong to the stink bug (Podisus maculiventris). The momma stink bug actually has the ability to choose the color of her eggs. The coloring ranges from pale yellow to black, depending on the surface on which she lays them.


(Photo: hagit berkovich/Shutterstock.com)A delicate collection of butterfly eggs (species not identified).


(Photo: Christian Vinces/Shutterstock.com)These look like the eggs of the pipevine swallowtail butterfly (Battus philenor). Either that or fruit gummy candy.


This cluster of baby bug marbles belongs to the shield bug. (Photo: SIMON SHIM/Shutterstock.com)


(Photo: Luis Miguel Bugallo Sánchez/CC BY-SA 3.0) These are what the eggs of the green shield bug (Palomena prasina) look like once they are hatched and abandoned.

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