Insect Eggs???

[WalterDavis]

I got out for a couple of hours the other day and got a short hike in. At one point we found a small cave (3-4' in diameter) and on the back wall there were these small (eggs?). They were 2/3 of the way up the wall, and just stuck there. No signs of other inhabitants other than a spider web in the farthest distant corner. I don't suppose anybody has any ideas?

(The knife is an Emerson CQC-7A, I was feeling very tacticool that day)

 

[Joezilla]

IF i were to guess, and I'm taking semi educated guess, I would say pentatomidae eggs. That family includes stinkbugs. That is just a guess though, they are shiny! cool!

 

[Joezilla]

Nice close up shot by the way walter!

 

[WalterDavis]

Thanks, that does look pretty similar!

The close up is all because of the camera-I didn't think any of them would come out because my girlfriend wouldn't quit moving the thing around in her hand:grumpy:

 

[taurn]

oooo They look pretty slick. Is the first pic when they were on the wall? Insect eggs are sooo interesting! Are they squishy?

 

[WalterDavis]

Yeah, the first pic is just as we found 'em (and left all but one). They were hollow, the dark spots are the openings where something crawled out of 'em

 

[Fubarski]

Water beetles (guess).