Insects often lay eggs if they are about to die - as a last ditch effort to
propagate. I suspect getting trapped caused the beetle to lay.
-Derek
On Thu, Aug 9, 2018 at 8:45 PM, mprebm wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> It has been an odd month for pests. For the first time ever, I found a
> sun spider i
Greetings,
It has been an odd month for pests. For the first time ever, I found a sun
spider in a trap. One trap had a Scarites beetle, what appeared to be a
big-headed ground beetle based on the shape of the mandibles and the very
skinny waist, and the trap was full of eggs from the edge to
