Eggs id?

[rafasani]

I found these eggs in my backyard, I live in south Brazil...
any ideas as what it might be???

 

[Ecilious]

I'm not sure, but let me be the first to say: WOAH. How big is that lime? It looks a bit like a cockroach ooteacha, but It's fixed around the stem. Also look sorta cylindrical like the eggs of the Hemiptera, but I've never seen/heard of anything laying them like that: normally single or attached at the base.

I'm not really very helpful, am I?

 

[rafasani]

sorry i forgot to put something on the picture for scale... that lime is very small... these eggs are about 1/3 inch long...

 

[Farom]

They look like katydid eggs to me...no idea what sp. though.

Thanks,
Andrew

 

[brachy]

OH MY GOD!!!! These are very great eags. I wolud like to find it in my garden too . My first idea was phasmatodea, bat these aren t ley eggs than. Butterfly ??? its too big. I never seen that.

 

[Ecilious]

I just saw some pictures of katydid eggs (for the first time ever - I know, shame on me) and I concur.

Yet another completely unhelpful post >_>.

 

[rafasani]

they´ve hatched!

the eggs just hatched and the correct answer was: katydid... the total number was around 100 hatchlings, I kept 10/15 to myself and released the rest...
anyone has tips about what can I feed them? they feed just on leaves or can I give them fruit or something???
here are some pictures..

 

[Farom]

Congrats! They're cute little guys. They will lettuce, the leaves from the tree you found them from, and probably fruits too.

Thanks,
Andrew

 

[Ecilious]

Very nice, good luck with them. Keep us posted on their progress!

 

[Scolopendra55]

Wow Brazilian katydids!! Those could fetch a pretty penny here in the states once grown I would also recomend feeding them lettuce, fruit or leaves fron the tree you gathered the egg mass from. Are there allot of unique katydids in Brazil? Wait a minute...it's Brazil what am I thinking You should post some pics of any cool ones you find!

 

[agentbsmithi]

if you ever do plan to sell any, id totally buy one when its a bit bigger. what a cool find, in your own backyard too huh? awesome.