Hi! Sorry, very new at the whole “bugs” thing, and I’m still learning. I spotted this the other day (not sure of the stink bug species, possibly Nezara viridula), promptly spent hours watching macro timelapses of stink bugs hatching, going from gooey babies to hard shelled nymphs…

Now to the question which has been bugging me: is there such a thing as “too late to hatch”? Can they “harden” inside the egg and just die there (maybe in the blackened eggs)?

Thanks!

Edit:

I found another nest of the same species and took it home. So: have a top view of the hatched eggs and some first instar nymphs while I’m at it!

  • @mostlypixelsOP
    1•10 months ago

    Stellar explanation, thank you! Those wasps are absurdly cute for creatures born of baby murder, by the way. The link you gave is fantastic, too.

    As for “hardly noticing”: macro photography fixes that problem, for better or worse (nothing like noticing a parasitic worm coming out of a cricket’s butt while reviewing your pictures in full 4k :D ). I take photos of everything even mildly suspicious, just in case.