Has anyone seen insect eggs that look like this? Any idea what they are? My basic online research has been fruitless on this, though I suspect they may be the eggs of something like a cabbage moth or white butterfly. Maybe a spider...?
Thanks for any suggestions or conclusive info...!
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Interesting. It looks like the eggs are on a cocoon?
Perhaps the Rusty Tussock Moth?
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Thanks, Stephen for sharing and Heather for the great suggestion.
That is really interesting.
The female is flightless, spending her brief life attached to her cocoon. The female attracts other males via release of a pheromone, the males find the female via the concentration gradient of the released pheromone. The female mates and lays her grey-yellow eggs in large numbers on her fine-meshed cocoon.
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Wow, looks like you nailed that one, Heather! I'm convinced.
If this is the case, looks like there's a family of rusty tussock moths living round Allerton Abbey. Found this cocoon and clutch of eggs while mending the fence up there.
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