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Tortoise Leaf Beetle eggs

Paropsis paropsisterna

Photo by Mark Ridgway
Published on Project Noah
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Field Notes

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/8936164

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (7)
MartinL
This link will reveal the culprit; http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/8151263 http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/8153244
MartinL
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
Scratch that I think there beetle eggs :p

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