were the eggs actually on the leaf?
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 9:50 PM, Horace Heffner<[email protected]> wrote:
> The following are photos and micrographs (3 at 40x, 1 at 100x) I took of
> what appear to be insect eggs on local birch trees. This is apparently
> fairly new to the area.
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ridt8naxHLs
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> Here is a movie at 100x of what appears to be a slow moving larva, possibly
> still in the egg:
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TInffuSp4S8
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> It is located to the upper right and very slow moving. Original scale for
> 100x is 73 pixels = 0.1 mm = 100 microns. Original frames were 640 pixels
> wide. I don't know to what width what youtube may have converted them, but
> the frame is about 876 microns wide, about 0.88 mm.
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> Fist thing that came to mind is spider mites, but I didn't see any. It is
> surprising to see so many eggs bunched together. Anyone recognize this?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Horace Heffner
> http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
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