Ellen Bulger wrote:
> I asked my friend Gale Ridge, an entomologist at the Connecticut
> Agricultural Experiment Station. I sent her a link to the photo and this
> is what she had to say:

> These eggs look like Giant Water Bug  (Belostomatidae) eggs.  You can
> see the eye spots. The post may have fooled a female in laying eggs on
> it rather than on a male.

* what a sorry embarrassment for her! But, if it works, I suppose this
is the kind of mistake on which evolutionary leaps forward are based.

fred.
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