Dear Experts,
I found this eggs on citrus leaf in West Java, Indonesia. They have stunning painting and looks so artistic. Is there anyone knows, what kind of insect that have this eggs? Many thanks for your input on this.
Dear Candra,
These eggs seem to be eggs of Heteroptera more accurately eggs of Pentatomidae.
Dear Candra Putra
Several Giant Water Bugs (Belostomatidae), Lethocerus medius,also giant prickly stick insect, spiny leaf insect ,Common Hyalophora cecropia, Giant Swallowtail, Papilionidae, Saturniidae, Sphingidae, have similar eggs, let as wait until hatch
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Prof. Houda Kawas
Preserve these eggs in warm humid conditions for several days, or weeks. Once they hatch you will know the animal. As for me now no guess.
I agree; they are Pentatomid eggs as indicated by egg-mass size, number and colour,
I am afraid I do not agree with my colleagues. I believe they are eggs from a Phasmatodea insect (stick insect). Many birds eat them but do not digest them, and disperse them with the bird droppings.
I do not have any of this kind of eggs. But Phasmatodea always mimic their eggs in many ways, but the shape is exactly the same.
Hello, I don't know these eggs, but they remind me on eggs of some species of moth belonging to family Lasiocampidae.
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