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Seed, or insect egg?
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from "Robert" contains these words: I think you're wrong, I get these things on the allotments and was hoping someone would anser the question so that I too would know. It's definitely an insect egg of some sort on the allotment I think they sound very like worm 'eggs'. Worms are hermaphrodites, and they lie together 'top-and-tail', secured, IIRC, by each squeezing under the clitellum of the other. (The short 'sleeve' about a third the way from the front.) The vesicles line up and the male part of each worm inseminates the female part of the other. As part of the process (It's nearly fifty years since I studied this at school, so memory is a bit hazy) the clitellum is worked down each worm and the sperm and ova from the female vesicle are squeezed into the clitellum, which is shed, and its ends close up, encapsulating the fluids. The eggs develop within the clitellum, which becomes a brittle dull yellow shell. -- Rusty Open the creaking gate to make a horrid.squeak, then lower the foobar. http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/ |
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