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Phasmid Eggs

The question "the chicken or the egg?" or as I like to say....."the Phasmid or the egg?".


Which came first?

 

I know that when the first adults died I had left was 21 eggs. If I didn't have those 21 eggs I am not sure if either of the two breeding groups would have survived.

The diagram and photographs below (figures 1 to 3) show the morphological detail of phasmid eggs.

Note eggs in figure 2 & 3 are from Dryococelus australis.

1. Description of morphological features from Clark 1976

2. Photograph of eggs with ruler indicating size 

3. Scanning electron microscope (SEM) photograph taken by Microscopy Unit Macquarie University in 2016

Figure 1
Figure 2
Figure 3
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