Hawaiian Insects

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Titanochaeta spider eggs Kokee 1793

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Araneid spider egg clusters from Camp Sloggett, Kokee. These were collected in order to try and rear Scaptomyza (Titanochaeta) flies from them. The larvae of these endemic Hawaiian drosophilids have switched from feeding on decaying plant material to spider eggs.