Chocolate Cookies!

This are the eggs of Stick Insects, Phasmids.
Not sure of what species but from the look, and they method it was laid (glued to leafs), its probably from the genus Neoclides.

comments (6)

Ferdy Christant

Lion

Fascinating how these eggs look, and per species so different. Posted 9 years ago
1. Albert Kang
  
  Lion
  
  Eggs of Phasmids are unique to each species and never the same between species.
  However, there are some similarity in the eggs i.e. shape, patterns, structure and method they are laid that makes them identifiable to the genus level, this is called, Ooth-taxanomy (or Taxanomy based on Eggs).
  
  Different methods of egg layings :
  - glued as in the above picture
  - thrown to the forest floor
  - flipped to the forest floor (the female has a 'scoop' structure on her end of abdomen which she uses to flip the eggs
  - drilled to leaf and/or substrate with a pin-like structure
  - drilled to substrate in bullet-shaped egg
  - buried in soils/substrate
  - and recently documented, laid in Ootheca, an egg case with many eggs inside, similar to Praying Mantis and Cockroach. Posted 9 years ago
2. 1. Ferdy Christant
    
    Lion
    
    Somebody should make a photo list of them ;) Posted 9 years ago
  2. 1. Albert Kang
      
      Lion
      
      There are already a few people into that study as shown here :
      
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phasmatodea#/media/File:21_Phasmid_Eggs.jpg
      
      and
      
      https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fs-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com%2F564x%2Ff4%2F77%2F7b%2Ff4777bfa1ecb2aa24550fc7bffc876ec.jpg&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pinterest.com%2Fpin%2F345229127659015629%2F&docid=2DUs-EGoWfztmM&tbnid=oqCAe6gpqUcitM%3A&w=564&h=555&client=safari&bih=660&biw=1227&ved=0ahUKEwiOq5T9xobPAhUGpJQKHeRiCxQQMwgxKBMwEw&iact=mrc&uact=8
      
      Posted 9 years ago

Barry

Lion

Amazing! Posted 6 years ago
1. Albert Kang
  
  Lion
  
  Thanks, Barry :) Posted 6 years ago

No species identified

The species on this photo is not identified yet. When signed in, you can identify species on photos that you uploaded. If you have earned the social image editing capability, you can also identify species on photos uploaded by others.