Clutch of tiny insect eggs under a manzanita leaf
Here is another clutch of tiny insect eggs on the underside of a leaf of Eastwood Manzanita (Arctostaphylos glandulosa ssp. mollis) in the Ericaceae plant family. These eggs have already hatched. They are stacked like little hexagons, with six neighbors each. The eggs are tiny, about 150 pixels across in this 1:1 macro shot, which comes to about 1/2 mm. (See here for how I figure.) I suspect these are the eggs of true bugs in the order Heteroptera, Hemiptera. This is my photo for the Macro Mondays group, with the theme of "Redux 2017--My Favorite Theme of the Year" and the sub-theme of "Egg". Hah, I got another photo of insect eggs for the original "Egg" theme back on March 6 - see this photo. I happened to find this clutch in a week when we were asked to reuse a theme from the past year, so I took that as an omen. HMM! (San Marcos Pass, 28 December 2017)
Clutch of tiny insect eggs under a manzanita leaf
Here is another clutch of tiny insect eggs on the underside of a leaf of Eastwood Manzanita (Arctostaphylos glandulosa ssp. mollis) in the Ericaceae plant family. These eggs have already hatched. They are stacked like little hexagons, with six neighbors each. The eggs are tiny, about 150 pixels across in this 1:1 macro shot, which comes to about 1/2 mm. (See here for how I figure.) I suspect these are the eggs of true bugs in the order Heteroptera, Hemiptera. This is my photo for the Macro Mondays group, with the theme of "Redux 2017--My Favorite Theme of the Year" and the sub-theme of "Egg". Hah, I got another photo of insect eggs for the original "Egg" theme back on March 6 - see this photo. I happened to find this clutch in a week when we were asked to reuse a theme from the past year, so I took that as an omen. HMM! (San Marcos Pass, 28 December 2017)