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Field Notes

Description:

I think they are eggs, found among some plants on a gravel bar in middle of creek. I will go with amphibian until told otherwise.

Habitat:

Gravel bar-creek

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (4)
KarenL
Chester, I agree with Lisa - this is frass. I raise caterpillars indoors & I never cease to be amazed by the quantity & size of their "poop"! If you consider that a caterpillar is basically an eating machine, & needs to consume several times its weight every day just to make the phenomenal growth it must go through to get from a tiny speck to a relatively large final instar that is able to pupate - all in the matter of a week or 2, then it starts to make sense.
chesterbperry
Thank you Lisa, I changed it to arthropods, but still not convinced they are not eggs. There was a lot of them in a very localized area, at least enough to make 2 caterpillars. If it was a caterpillar relieving it's self, then that caterpillar needs to see a doctor or there was several of them using a communal depot.
LisaPowers
Looks like caterpillar poop to me :-)

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