As I Xi It

This is one time that I wished I had the Canon MP-E65.

I had a look in the glass vial I have where I keep the stick insect eggs and noticed one died while in the process of emerging and another was still moving mostly, but its legs were trapped in in the egg still. So, I made a little time-lapse but it just never managed to get out.

A few months ago my stick insects died and left some eggs behind. These eggs have been hatching in the past month or so. They’re just so many of them now, there’s 13 at the last count. One died from drowning and another died while trying to emerge from its egg.