Eggs collected from newly dead beetle

[arachknight]

Are eggs collected, from within, a newly dead beetle viable?

Joel

 

[Dynastes]

No

 

[arachknight]

No

Do you know why?

 

[Regiarbol]

I think the eggs are too big to stay in there.

 

[Dynastes]

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Do you know why?

They're fertilized on the way out.

 

[Dynastes]

If they were they'd hatch a specific number of days from the date of mating rather than being laid.