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Tortoise Leaf Beetle eggs

Paropsis paropsisterna

Description:

Tiny yellow eggs 1mm long at leaf tip of E. melliodora layered in 'bands'

Habitat:

Cool climate eucalyptus

Notes:

These are part of a bigger story involving several prey and predators on one gum tree. http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/893...

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7 Comments

AnnalisaD
AnnalisaD 12 years ago

Uber cool!

alicelongmartin
alicelongmartin 12 years ago

Cool!

UrifahRidlo
UrifahRidlo 12 years ago

nice shot!

MartinL
MartinL 12 years ago

These are the eggs of one of the leaf beetles (family=Chrysomelidae). Some typically lay in rows at the soft end of a leaf. I suspect it is one of the paropsine leaf beetles. I will upload an image for you.

ScottDenson
ScottDenson 12 years ago

Scratch that I think there beetle eggs :p

ScottDenson
ScottDenson 12 years ago

Might be wasp eggs

Mark Ridgway
Spotted by
Mark Ridgway

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Spotted on Dec 21, 2011
Submitted on Dec 21, 2011

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