Saw one egg like this on Snout Bean back at the ranch a few months ago but lost track of it and never found out what hatched. When I was looking over my Blue Pea Vines I found this little collection! Am wondering if they are some kind of skipper eggs?
When I flipped over the leaf to take a photo that tune 99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall came to mind :o)
~ Cat
This message was edited Oct 22, 2007 2:17 PM
Ah...and I did find what I believe are Longtail Skipper eggs on the Blue Pea Vine too. Love the little faceted shape of these eggs...had not noticed that until I zoomed in on them.
~ Cat
Great, now I'll sing that song all day! That is a great shot, can't wait to find out what they are. Have you noticed there are lots of Cats, Cathys and Kathys on DG?
Cat, those Longtail Skipper eggs look like some kind of a pill from Star Trek. What a great closeup!
Cathy (another one!)
Cat!!
You find the absolute coolest stuff!
Adrienne
Marsy doats and dosy oats and little lambsie divy
a kiddly divie doo, wouldn't you.
(Trying to get 99 bottles of beer out of my head) lol : )
~Lucy
This message was edited Oct 22, 2007 4:36 PM
Would those be Bud Light bottles? :)
Cool picture! Amazing how some of these eggs are laid!
I thought it was mares eat oats and goats eat oats and little lambs eat ivy. Now that is a song that I haven't heard in a long time.
Cat - You just have ALL the LUCK!! What a great photo in the first one you posted!! (Actually all the photos you post are awesome! Great macro camera!!!)
And I had to LOL because it really does look like bottles of beer lined up! Too, too funny!!!
Thank you for getting that straightened out Cathy. I've been humming that crazy tune and trying to figure out what ate the oats Lucy was writing about :o)
The camera I am using is the Sony DSC-H9. Have been setting the macro to 2.1 and getting as close as I can without losing the focus. That setting seems to work better than the 1.0 setting.
This is what they looked like hanging from the underside of the leaf.
~ Cat
I always thought it was.... Mares eat oats, and does eat oats, and little lambs eat ivy. A kid will eat ivy too, wouldn't you?
I don't know if the 'kid' is a goat, or a child. lol : )
Probably 50 different ways it is sung, tho.
~Lucy
I found this about that little song. : )
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "Mares Eat Oats" is a nursery rhyme. One of the writers, Milton Drake, had been familiar with the phrase "mares eat oats, does eat oats," from a very old childhood nursery rhyme. The three writers then got together and came up with a tune for the nursery rhyme. While they tried to publish the song, no one would take it because it sounded so silly. After a year, the writers gave Al Trace, a bandleader of "Silly Symphonists," a shot. He liked the song and completed it. After it was produced it became a huge hit. Even the American troops sang it in World War II marching off ships at foreign ports. Soldiers also used the lyrics as passwords. It was then spread around the world. After many years it was also used in movies and TV shows.
Lyrics: Mares Eat Oats Words and Music by Milton Drake, Al Hoffman and Jerry Livingston. This song was produced in Al Trace's 1943 record.
Mares-eat oats and does eat oats,
And little lambs eat ivy,
A kid will eat ivy too,
Wouldn't you?
Sung quicky, it sounds like this:
Maresy-doats and dozy-doats,
And liddle lamzy divey,
A kiddley divey too,
Wouldn't you-oo?
Now I can sleep, lol!
BlueGlancer,
You have way too much time on your hands. :)
It is a cute song.
ROFL!!!!
I figured that was more information than you wanted to know.
I just wanted to know how it really went, so I looked it up.
~Lucy
Ya'll are hilarious!!! Am sure it will take weeks to get this tune out of mind!!! :o)
I still have flashbacks to the song "Kokomo" by the Beach Boys. A guy at work kept repeating that first line and I'd wake up in the middle of the night with that one line running through my head!!!!
Aruba, Jamaica, ooo I wanna take you...
!@#$%~ ^%#$@&* (*&^% !!!!
I finally had to look up the lyrics to finish off the verse to get it out of my head!!!
Aruba, Jamaica, ooo I wanna take you
Bermuda, Bahama, come on pretty mama
Key Largo, Montego, baby why don't we go...
Heh heh...that'll teach ya'll :o)
~ Cat
Well if I have to stay awake all night singing silly songs, that one is at least relaxing!
This is the song that never ends.
It goes on and on my friends.
Someone started singing it not knowing what it was,
and they'll continue singing it forever just because,
This is the song that never ends.
It goes on and on my friends.
Someone started singing it not knowing what it was,
and they'll continue singing it forever just because......
Check mate??
ROFLMBO! Now I have a good supply of silly songs to run through my head for the next several months! It's amazing what I can learn here on DG! On a more serious note, love those close up pictures of the Longtail Skipper eggs Texas. Without the aid of your picture, I'm not sure I could see that detail with my glasses on! Thanks for sharing.
We are a silly bunch. LOL : )
Song of the Day: Jeremiah was a bullfrog.
~Lucy
May I add a picture of the frog to the song? Great pics. of the "beer bottles", ~Cat.
Kim
Cat did anything ever eclose from the little beer bottles?? I had some on a brug leaf but forgot about them
Nothing yet Donna...I just found them on the 22nd. I clipped the leaf and am keeping it in a cat cage just to make sure I find out what will hatch.
~ Cat
The beer bottles hatched today. BUGS!!! EEEEK!!!
Not sure what kind they are...but no doubt...they are no good.
~ Cat
a better photo of one of them.
~ Cat
They look like little shrimp with legs!
What is that! It looks like it should live in a cave.
Oh cool, Cat!!! Now ... to ID what they are!!! How interesting! :-)
kind of look like assasin bugs
Fun thread!
Donna, that was my thought... they have that "assassin bug" stance. I'd put them in the "good bugs" category (but I don't know if they'd eat little cats... I'm more concerned about their contribution eating aphids and stinkbugs).
If they hang together in a group and do not eat each other, they are probably Leaf Footed Bugs (Dastardly Sucker Of Plant Juices) If they tend to be solitary and have no problems eating their siblings, then they are Assassin Bugs, who may chow down upon wayward cats. Great images.
Thanks ya'll. Although it was tiny when it first emerged it quickly got into that assassin bug stance when I nudged it with a paint brush.
Critter, I didn't even realize it until you point that out. Too funny!
Either way...a dastardly sucker of plant juices or a caterpillar predator...they are now underfoot :o) Literally, under my foot!
~ Cat
ROFL!!! I guess they are better left for the wild not in our gardens! LOL!
