Found something else, no idea what it is

[aychen222]

I posted this on reddit too but I am trying anything and everything I can to identify it. If you can even narrow down the search just a little that would be great. It was found in SC on a signpost. Approx 3/4 in long and there were 3 separate sacs on the post. I guess this is what happens when you are looking for ooths, you find a whole bunch of other stuff instead.

 

[D_Hemptress]

maybe a spider?

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-syJDhvBIHTM/Tu1e4tQzC5I/AAAAAAAAAPg/oKB80V1DE_E/s1600/DSC00297.JPG

^^this is a grass spider egg sack.... idk

 

[aychen222]

Yea I was thinking some kind of spider, but these may be a bit too large for grass spider egg sacs. I mistook these for ooths from a couple yards away because of their size.

 

[D_Hemptress]

they deffinetly look like ooths, but they seem really fuzzy, thats why im thinking spider

 

[agent A]

looks like a cecropia moth cocoon

 

[aychen222]

But these are really rounded with seemingly no edges.

 

[aychen222]

Though now that you say moth cocoon, I can definitely see the fuzziness being part of that.

 

[agent A]

Though now that you say moth cocoon, I can definitely see the fuzziness being part of that.

either genus hyalophora or callosamia

 

[aychen222]

This looks similar but I am not sure if it is right

http://www.drgeoffbalme.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/1-tussock-moth-cocoon.jpg

 

[aychen222]

well now the big question is, should i bring them home to see?

 

[agent A]

well now the big question is, should i bring them home to see?

get a net cage and a staple gun

staple the open side to the structure so when the cocoons eclose, the moth is trapped in the net cage

 

[Reptiliatus]

They are cocoons, I know that 100%. We have these everywhere in Ontario, Canada as well. You may want to actually remove the silk to check if the pupae is actually intact before you set them up for anything. Often times, spiders suck them dry and you can't tell the difference , or they have already emerged.

 

[mantid_mike]

Looks interesting. This is the type of place where a mantis would lay an ooth. You should see some of the crevices that I found some of my ooths in. It's like the walked in backwards just to lay them in there.

 

[agent A]

They are cocoons, I know that 100%. We have these everywhere in Ontario, Canada as well. You may want to actually remove the silk to check if the pupae is actually intact before you set them up for anything. Often times, spiders suck them dry and you can't tell the difference , or they have already emerged.

usually that's what parasitic wasps do

 

[sinensispsyched]

Argh! I raised these moths last year, and I'm drawing a blank on their name....We released (her?) and she was quite the beauty.

 

[aychen222]

So I should definitely pick these up?

 

[agent A]

So I should definitely pick these up?

yes

u can likely peel them off the surface

 

[hibiscusmile]

I found one in the yard the other day, turned it over and it had hatched already, prob last year, to cold this year.