Hi Sylvie,
When looking for laying females, I can't cope with a camera as well
![Embarassed :oops:](./images/smilies/icon_redface.gif)
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This egg was found in the Sherbrook Valley on Cannock Chase after watching several females crawling around in the grass and dead Bracken near to flushes of Marsh Violets. I saw several curved abdomens (abdomina? - abominable...), but no eggs ( I think they were just pushed out into the surrounding vegetation, where they immediately vanished. Eventually' I saw one actually deposit an ovum on a piece of dead grass. The picture was photostacked at home and the egg returned to the site the following day.
Tony M.