By the way, a "true bug", I found out, is one that sucks the juice out of another insect or plant. So, from this definition, I gather that a non true bug "chews" or eats other bugs or plants. Now, if you ever wanted to be technical and felt like calling your friend a bug - check out his or her eating habits first. Okay, just kidding.
Picture (i) shows a cluster of neatly arranged eggs. Actually there were two clusters. The other one has only two eggs and is not featured here. These eggs have been moved slightly as originally, all the bottom of the eggs touched the leaf. This picture was taken on 5-Mar-2016.
The eggs are well gelled to each other. Being in torpedo-shaped must have helped the Assassin Bug in "expelling" them out and onto the leaf. My only query is. Why is the end so rough? Did the egg get torn off from the the internals of the bug before it was expelled?
For truth sake, these two pictures have been inverted. The eggs were hanging by the leaf. Not sitting on the leaf. It is being shown this way because I found it more natural to look at them.
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| Eggs in a row . Look at the glistering glue holding them together - (i) |
Here is the picture (ii) of the same cluster 6 days later, today! The eggs had been slightly disturbed but still intact. The whole area of each egg is coated with still-moist glue. So, no matter how the eggs were moved, they will stick to either the leaf or whatever that moved them.
We can see that it has shrunken just a bit. I am not sure if it is still "alive". I guess that would have to wait. Maybe I will check on it a few days later.
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| Length: 1.9 mm. Diameter: 200 ~500 microns - (ii) |
You know, looking at it closely reminds me of my younger adventurous days. I used to suffer from piles and constipation and very often I would need to have those cold-hard suppositories inserted up my you-know-where. An operation in my later years took care of those suppository story forever.
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