Today was another nice day to be outdoors. Ben and I went egg hunting for his project in Wayne county. And no this wasn't Easter egg kinda hunting...this was insect egg hunting, specifically squash bug egg hunting.

Ben looking for squash bug eggs

Squash bug egg mass (brownish mass) near edge of leaf

Another egg mass (brownish red mass) on leaf

Squash bug nymphs (grayish specks) on a damaged squash leaf

Squash bug adult on squash leaf
Eagle-eye Alfred got most of them. We collected well over 3000 eggs yesterday! I counted up to 2700 when we got back, then stopped because we had more than enough for two years of research. For now, they're in the deep freeze.
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