Fruit fly eggs
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No reason to get rid of the adults. You should just be able to brush them off.
I suspect that you actually saw pupae of the larvae, rather than eggs from the adults. I'm not sure I've ever seen a fruit fly egg since they are so small. If you keep fruit in the cage and attract flies, you'll usually see the larvae moving around on/in the fruit. After the larvae get large enough they'll crawl off and find a surface to pupate on.
If your rhino beetles were dead when you noticed the eggs or pupae on them, the "eggs" may have been pupal cases of phorid flies. The larvae of these flies clean out the insides of dead beetles.
I suspect that you actually saw pupae of the larvae, rather than eggs from the adults. I'm not sure I've ever seen a fruit fly egg since they are so small. If you keep fruit in the cage and attract flies, you'll usually see the larvae moving around on/in the fruit. After the larvae get large enough they'll crawl off and find a surface to pupate on.
If your rhino beetles were dead when you noticed the eggs or pupae on them, the "eggs" may have been pupal cases of phorid flies. The larvae of these flies clean out the insides of dead beetles.
They may not be fruit flies, but they were fairly small and hanging around near the fruit. I saw some small larvea in the fruit, which i got rid of. I have also seen pupal cases, and these look different. The eggs are fairly small, but they lay them in big numbers, and on one beetle it covered his entire leg. So far I've just been scraping the eggs off. Also the beetles were alive when I saw the eggs. Thanks
They may not be fruit flies, but they were fairly small and hanging around near the fruit. I saw some small larvea in the fruit, which i got rid of. I have also seen pupal cases, and these look different. The eggs are fairly small, but they lay them in big numbers, and on one beetle it covered his entire leg. So far I've just been scraping the eggs off. Also the beetles were alive when I saw the eggs. Thanks
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Old thred, i know, but i still wanted to say ive seen small "eggs" before that looked like they could come from fruit flys but im pretty sure there are from what are called "spring Tails"; a small white bug which lives in moist soil. ive breed both fruit flys and spring tails for food for my poison dart frogs, the tropical vareity of springtail gets rather big but the normal variety are small but leave those egg clusters on things, i used to find them on my tropical roaches quit often...
To find out what they are exactly, you might carefully brush some off into a portion cup with some moistened paper towel substrate. Then place a Blue Bottle fly in with it for a host and also a piece of fruit. Cover with mesh and keep inside for warmth, watch over a few days and you will see what the heck that you saw becomes.