Green Eggs

green-eggs

Green Eggs, but no Ham

I still haven’t found out what these green eggs are, carefully laid out on a yellow iris leaf, like snooker balls in a frame.

If you look close up on the original picture at maximum size I think it’s possible to make out a circle of little hooks on each egg, like velcro presumably to help them stick to the leaf.

hooks

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3 Responses to Green Eggs

  1. Hksm98 says:

    These look like eggs from an insect. Maybe a dragon fly or a moth. but definitively an insect.

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  3. Andy Roberts says:

    In the end I decided the green eggs must be from these shield bugs:

    http://www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/wildlifegarden/atoz/g/greenshieldbug.aspx

    Females lay clusters of small, barrel-shaped eggs on the undersides of leaves. These hatch into wingless nymphs, which crawl between plants to feed, and become the new generation of adults in September

    sometimes called a green stink bug

    The Common Green Shield Bug (Palomina prasina)

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