It would be really cool if these were cat eggs, but I have a feeling they are something else...something baaaaad. LOL. They are on annual poppies which I do not recall seeing as any kind of host, except they sort of look like cabbage leaves if you squint reeeal hard. Maybe my sulphurs are near-sighted?
Even if they aren't cat eggs, you can tell me how great the photo is :))
Suzy
They look like black aphids...but I didn't know aphids were black.
Not sure what the white thingies are...they like white fly larvae.
Don't know anything that uses poppy as a larval host...and if those are aphids they sure are hitting rock bottom hitting the poppies.
Sulphur eggs will be whitish to yellow...and conical...like teeny little ears of corn with pointy tips.
~ Cat
ps...nice photo by the way :o)
This message was edited Jun 12, 2007 11:38 PM
LOL! I took a closer look at the photo right after I posted it and saw the legs coming off the eggs and realized they weren't cat eggs. I didn't see them when I was using my own eyes, isn't that awful?
Teeny ears of corn with pointy tips -- LOL! how did you learn all this? There are NO photos online that I could find, although I didn't find a place that had a cocoon sort of thing pictured. Chrysalis? Right. That's what I meant.
Well, I had an Eastern Comma today, so I am happy, aphids and all.
Thanks, Cat,
Suzy
Could it be baby beetles of some kind? Some of them can be pretty nasty eating your plants. Keep an eye on those bad boys!
I already squished them dead...in the bug ID forum, they identified them as black aphids.
So caterpillars are usually round and usually light colored, would you say that's true?
Suzy
Eastern Commas are good!!! Wish we had those down here. Hope you are able to take photos to share.
This is a photo of a Dainty Sulphur egg. This species of sulphur is tiny about 1" in size. The eggs of a Cloudless or other sulphurs is pretty much the same looking...but maybe just a teeny bit bigger. The eggs are normally laid singly on the tips of a budding leaf. At the most 1.5 mm in length.
~ Cat
This message was edited Jun 13, 2007 9:59 AM
These are Cloudless Sulphur eggs. The white pointy looking things :o) They prefer to lay eggs on fresh tender growth from new budding leaves.
~ Cat
So they can also be ovoid, interesting. Funny how easy it is to see when it's in a photo and not right in front of me on the plant!
Thanks,
Suzy
Great pictures!!
Adrienne
Suzy,
Ha! Looks easy but it's not...I have to use my reading glasses, close focusing binoculars, a huge magnifying glass or the macro lenses on my camera to see most eggs 8-)
Most times if I see a butterfly flitting around a larval host plant I will watch to see if it lays an egg then go over and try to remember on what leaf it was so I can take a photo. Many times a gravid female is so intent on laying eggs that she won't fly away or won't fly too far when you walk up close. Chances are she'll come back and lay more eggs.
Become familiar with your larval host plants and when you have time scan over them. I often find eggs on my plants and never even saw a butterfly in my yard :o)
~ Cat
