parasitised eggs.

harisA · Post by **harisA** » Wed Dec 04, 2013 11:01 am

I suspect these are stink bags eggs.They are parasitised by parasitic wasps (I know it because i waited for the eggs to fetch and saw the baby wasps).
If my guess about stink bag is true then the morphology of the eggs has been severely altered due to parasitism.

Of course i would like to hear the forum's experts opinion.

Jacek · Post by **Jacek** » Wed Dec 04, 2013 11:49 am

beautiful image

Marek Mis · Post by **Marek Mis** » Wed Dec 04, 2013 12:06 pm

Perfect !
What kind of objective have you used ? Was it regular microscope or the stereo one ?
It reminds me one of your winning images in Olympus BioScapes competition

Marek

harisA · Post by **harisA** » Thu Dec 05, 2013 2:30 am

Thank you for your comments.

Marek Mis wrote:Perfect !
What kind of objective have you used ? Was it regular microscope or the stereo one ?
It reminds me one of your winning images in Olympus BioScapes competition

Marek

Picture was taken with nikon 4x objective.Marek you have a very good memory althought this picture was taken 2 months ago.

Marek Mis · Post by **Marek Mis** » Thu Dec 05, 2013 4:14 am

Haris,

Thank you for your information about the microscope.
By the way, I forgot to say, that when I first time looked at your image I thought - these are grapes

Marek

carlos.uruguay · Post by **carlos.uruguay** » Thu Dec 05, 2013 7:13 am

impressive

RogelioMoreno · Post by **RogelioMoreno** » Thu Dec 05, 2013 7:59 am

Nice, I also thought they were grapes.

Rogelio

harisA · Post by **harisA** » Thu Dec 05, 2013 8:09 am

Thank you all for your kind words.

If you look carefully ,at the top of each "grape" there is a circular formation consisting of white dots.
That's why i suspect these are stink bug eggs.

pwnell · Post by **pwnell** » Sat Dec 14, 2013 11:29 pm

Excellent image,. I love the clarity - you can even see inside some of them.

harisA · Post by **harisA** » Wed Dec 18, 2013 7:38 am

Thank you Waldo.