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Thursday 16 August 2018

Different types of insect eggs


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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