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Question on eggs and hatching (pics.letsfail.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by mostlypixels@programming.dev to c/entomology@mander.xyz

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Hi! Sorry, very new at the whole "bugs" thing, and I'm still learning. I spotted this the other day (not sure of the stink bug species, possibly Nezara viridula), promptly spent hours watching macro timelapses of stink bugs hatching, going from gooey babies to hard shelled nymphs...

Now to the question which has been bugging me: is there such a thing as "too late to hatch"? Can they "harden" inside the egg and just die there (maybe in the blackened eggs)?

Thanks!

Edit:

I found another nest of the same species and took it home. So: have a top view of the hatched eggs and some first instar nymphs while I'm at it!

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[–] Bynoesaur@mander.xyz 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ahaha...okay let's call it "exponential escalation" instead 😅 have you played with iNaturalist at all? That was my next step in the bug collecting, photographing and identification obsession chain haha

[–] mostlypixels@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Not iNaturalist, but observations.be, where I've been playing real life Pokemon for a month or so now. For the most part, I found myself a nice overgrown spot between a parking lot and train tracks, and I'm documenting everything I find there.