On my desk sit containers housing stalks of lacewing eggs, a clump of hemipteran eggs, a pair of gecko eggs, and an egg of mysterious origins, unknown disposition and undetermined fertility which was found exposed on a grass patch just behind the office block.
Some of the lacewings have hatched; the ravenous larvae have cannibalised one another and only four out of the dozen were left standing by the time I had gotten round to separating them into individual cells. Now I’ve to find food for them - donations of aphids and mealy bugs are welcomed.
Lacewing eggs (Neuroptera - Chrysopidae)
Mystery egg
