Yesterday i spend a few hours at Becky's home photographing the eggs of the Australian Walking Stick (that is pictured in the first post). Trixie, the AWS's name, literally drops eggs 5-6 times a day as she moves around the house. They are about pin-head size and very hard. Brown and white striped, they initially appear slightly oblong like a football. However, we found a variety of parts and protrusions that are not visible without magnification.

The images below don't have anything in the photo to compare them with such as a penny or dime, etc., so there is not reference but i'll add some when i do additional shooting today or tomorrow.

The assumption is that the brown band is sealing the egg; we don't know what the lighter color protrusion on the left is nor what the horse-shoe shaped relief is on the band. One theory for the horse-shoe is that that is where the egg is attached to the Walking Stick which allows it to hang out of the birthing canal (that is not the correct terminology) and when ready, it can be pushed off allowing it to drop. Please know that is just an idea of the use of the horse-shoe and may have nothing to do with that idea in reality.

Pretty neat photos and about 4-5 times the actually size of the egg.

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