Spined Soldier Bug eggs on Wild Asparagus - less than 1 mm - Lower Don Valley (Leaside) - July 2011
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Spined Soldier Bug eggs - less than 1 mm
Order: Hemiptera (True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids)
Family: Pentatomidae (Stink Bugs)
Genus: Podisus
Species: Maculiventris? or Brevispinus?
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Fall Cankerworm Moth with eggs (less than 1 mm) - Marie Curtis Park - November 2008
Fall Cankerworm Moth (female) with eggs (less than 1 mm)
Order: Lepidoptera (Butterflies & Moths)
Genus: Alsophila
Species: Pometaria
Family: Geometridae (Geometrid Moths)
The female is wingless
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Ladybug? eggs - approx. 1 mm - Lower Don Valley (Leaside) - July 2011
Ladybug? eggs - less than 1 mm
Order: Coleoptera?
Family: Coccinellidae (Ladybug Beetles)?
Genus: ?
Species: ?
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Praying Mantis egg case - approx. 4 cm - Lower Don Valley (Leaside) - March 2011
Praying Mantis egg case - approx.  4 cm
Order: Mantodea (Mantids)
Family: Mantidae (Mantids)
Genus: Mantis
Species: Religiosa
Also known as European Mantid - may be green or brown -
native to Europe - ootheca contains dozens to over 100
nymphs
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Gypsy Moth (female) with egg mass - approx. 3.5 cm
Order: Lepidoptera (Butterflies & Moths)
Genus: Lymantria
Species: Dispar
Gypsy Moth (female) with egg mass - moth approx. 3.5 cm - Lower Don Valley (Crother's Woods) - August 2011
Egg mass covered in silk to protect young for the winter -
the female is flightless - native to Eurasia
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Family: Erebidae (formerly Lymantriidae)
Monarch Butterfly egg - approx 1 mm
Order: Lepidoptera (Butterflies & Moths)
Genus: Danaus
Species: Plexippus
Monarch Butterfly egg on Common Milkweed - approx. 1 mm - East Don Valley (Charles Sauriol Conservation Area) - July 2011
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Family: Danaidae (Milkweed Butterflies)
Soldier Fly (female) with eggs - approx. 1 cm
Family: Stratiomyidae (Soldier Flies)
Genus: Stratiomys?
Species: ?
Soldier Fly (female) with eggs on Lamb's Quarters? - fly approx. 1.5 cm - Lower Don Valley (Crother's Woods) - August 2011
Order: Diptera (Flies)
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Unidentified insect eggs - less than 1 mm
Family: ?
Genus: ?
Species: ?
Unidentified insect eggs - approx. 0.5 mm - East Don Valley (Charles Sauriol Conservation Area) - September 2011
Order: ?
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta