Help! Need to identify this alien-looking egg!
8 years ago
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It gives me the creeps just looking at it. The first one I saw, I thought was a rock and I kicked it to get it out of my garden, but it didn't move!! Curious, I grabbed a stick and poked at it and it's rather hard. I kept messing with it and managed to uproot it, but I was afraid it would bust open and an alien creature - or worse yet - a snake or something would jump out at me! Okay, a little dramatic but not entirely untrue! =]
I just found another one and EWWWWW!!! Can anyone tell me what this is?! SOOOO GROSS!!!
Thanks!!
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Comments (7)I agree about the caterpillar--probably a moth caterpillar, probably common and adapted to eating a lot of things (polyphagous). I found one similar on a rolled up Paw-Paw leaf. Agree about the egg. Yeah!...See Morecan anybody help me identify this nest and eggs
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