MissSherry,
The dreaded Black Witch you spoke of earlier uses Cassia! Will you raise these and let us know what they turn into?

Curt

Do they look almost irresidiscent?

Mary, they do reflect other colors, but I wouldn't say they're iridescent.
Curt, I cut off the little stem they're on and put it in a leftovers container with a hole in the top and water in it - I put this in my smallest container. I'm anxious to know what they are! If they're any kind of caterpillar and not a stinkbug or something, I'll raise them myself in a big cage. I'll have to Google black witch and see if I can find out what the eggs look like - now that you mention it, I do remember reading that they use cassia. I'll never forget how big those black witches were two years ago, bigger than giant or tiger swallowtails or the big silk moths!
MissSherry

Oooh....Ahhhh.....I'd love to raise a Black Witch! They're gorgoeous! Do you not like them, MissSherry?

Susan

Here's an image of the Black Witch eggs.

I really don't think that those are moth or butterfly eggs. (Not that I have any idea what the heck they are! lol)

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No, Susan, actually, I love them! I thought the first one I saw was a bat, then I wondered why I'd be seeing a bat in the daytime, so I took a closer look and it turned out to be a huge moth! I must have brushed up against it accidentally or disturbed it in some way. I know (intellectually) that it was just a coincidence that they appeared on my property right before the hurricane, and none of the superstitions about them are true - anyway, I like them enough to take a chance!
I found a picture of eggs on a Black Witch section of a butterfly/moth website, and they're brown. If BW eggs are brown when oviposited, then these are definitely not BWs, but if the eggs on the website were brown because they were about to hatch, then they still might be BWs. We all know that our butterfly eggs turn brown before hatching, so that is probably the case with moth eggs.
MissSherry

MissSherry...

Did they look like the ones in the photos? These are photos as they aged and then hatched into a bug.

Iridescent, oddly shaped...something like a round football...with a flat bottom???

If so...then they will turn out to be bad bugs...predatory bad bugs. Squish the boogers now! :o)

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~ Cat

Cat is right....I "rescued" one of these eggs on my paw paw tree last year and it hatched out into one of those ugly, mean predator bugs. Ewwwww! I thought it was gonna be a cool moth or something.

Judy

Unfortunately, that's it! :(
I've seen those bugs here, too - I get my share of the predatory insects, mostly stink bugs.
They're toast!
MissSherry

I also found a large round yellow egg on my senna, MissSherry, this week. When I went back to check on it, it had either hatched or been eaten by another predator. However, the fact that I found a stink bug makes me wonder??????? Rhizo, do they lay round eggs about the size of moth eggs?

Susan

Yes, MissSherry...pretty as those eggs are...they are bad bugs. I was quite intrigued by the 'designs' that showed up as the eggs matured...as in photo 2 and 3.

Too funny Judy!!! I can't tell you how many 'bugs' I've raised from eggs I've found on my plants :o) Are you still planning on come down to south Texas for the butterfly festival in October? If so, hope to meet you there. Too bad you aren't out here now...I've got lots of Guava Skipper eggs on my guava tree and lots of hatching little cats :o) Maybe there'll be another brood in the fall that the folks can see.

~ Cat