eggs images - Joel Sartore

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A Cellar spider (Crossopriza lyoni) carrying its eggs, at the Audubon Insectarium, part of the Audubon Nature Institute.

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A cellar spider (Crossopriza lyoni) carrying its eggs, at the Audubon Insectarium, part of the Audubon Nature Institute.

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An assassin snail (Clea helena) at Safari Park Dvur Kralove. As do many freshwater gastropods, they’ll commonly lay eggs on one another’s shells. Particularly if the area where they live is dominated by soft sediments such as sand and silt.

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Several eggs of the Florida applesnail (Pomacea paludosa) at Gulf Specimen Aquarium in Panacea, FL. This species is in decline due to being out-competed by introduced, invasive snails from other countries.

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Several species of invertebrates cling to a bougainvillea hydroid stem at Gulf Specimen in Panacea, Florida.

The orange piece at bottom is a staghorn bryozoan (Schizoporella unicornis.)

The gray fleshy material second from bottom is a cluster of clear sea squirt (Clavelina picta).

The yellow round objects are banded tulip snail eggs (Fasciolaria hunteria).

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Several species of invertebrates cling to a bougainvillea hydroid stem at Gulf Specimen in Panacea, Florida.

The orange piece at bottom is a
Staghorn bryozoan (Schizoporella unicornis.)

The gray fleshy material second from bottom is a cluster of clear sea squirt (Clavelina picta.)

The yellow round objects are banded tulip snail eggs (Fasciolaria hunteria).

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Shufeldtii mini crayfish (Cambarellus shufeldtii) with eggs, from a private collection.

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Shufeldtii mini crayfish (Cambarellus shufeldtii) with eggs, from a private collection.

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Marbled crayfish (Procambarus virginalis) with eggs from a private collection.

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Marbled crayfish (Procambarus virginalis) with eggs from a private collection.

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A female critically endangered fairy shrimp (Branchinecta mediospinosa) wild caught near Cheyenne Bottoms, Kansas releases her eggs.

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San Diego fairy shrimp (Branchinecta sandiegonensis) at Kansas University. The female, above, is carrying eggs.
Listed as federally endangered in the US.

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Packard’s fairy shrimp (Branchinecta packardi) at the Kansas University. Shown is a female carrying eggs (lower right) along with two males.

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A female Turkestan cockroach (Shelfordella lateralis) with eggs at the Moscow Zoo.

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A female Turkestan cockroach (Shelfordella lateralis) with eggs, at the Moscow Zoo.

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Shorebird on Alaska’s North Slope.

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A collection of eggs from the University of Nebraska State Museum.

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Majorcan or Mallorcan midwife toad (Alytes muletensis) carrying eggs on back legs at the London Zoo.

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Majorcan or Mallorcan midwife toad (Alytes muletensis) carrying eggs on back legs at the London Zoo.

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Left handed whelk (Busycon contrarium) eggs from Gulf Specimen Marine Laboratories.

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Left handed whelk (Busycon contrarium) eggs from Gulf Specimen Marine Laboratories.

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Tulip shell (Fasciolaria tulipa), with eggs from Gulf Specimen Marine Laboratories.

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Tulip shell (Fasciolaria tulipa), with eggs from Gulf Specimen Marine Laboratories.

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Tulip shell (Fasciolaria tulipa), with eggs from Gulf Specimen Marine Laboratories.

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Tulip shell (Fasciolaria tulipa), with eggs from Gulf Specimen Marine Laboratories.

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Andaman Island stick insect (Sceptrophasma hispidula) from the Plzen Zoo in the Czech Republic. This species lays its seed-like eggs on the bodies of others of its kind.