DIFFERENT TYPES OF EGGS
1. .Eggs of chrysopa:- They are laid on leaves but raised on stalks which may
be few mm in height. The stalk is
produced as a viscous material which fly in the air
2. .Eggs of locust/grasshopper:- The eggs are elongated and 8mm long. They are laid in
a pod made of cement like frothy secretion. They look like a grain of rice. The
pod is held under the ground.
3. .Eggs of cockroach:- Eggs are laid in glad stone bag like ootheca . They are somewhat enlarged.
4. .Eggs of head louse:- The eggs are laid in hairs 200-500 eggs in a day laid
by a female. The eggs are 0.9 mm long and are attached by their posterior ends
by a hard cementing secretion to the hairs.
5. .Eggs of musca and drosophila:- Eggs are laid in food . The eggs are creamish white and a millimeter
long.
6. Eggs of nepa and ranatra:- Eggs of nepa and ranatra lay eggs in floating vegetation. Respiration horns remains out of
water.
7. Eggs of pieris :- The eggs are spherical and sculptured.
8. Eggs of earwings:- Female lay a cluster of eggs in under ground chamber
and mount guard over them. Eggs are regularly picked up and cleaned by female
to remove any fungal spores. The eggs are spherical and white in color.
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