Last year, the survey turned up almost no egg masses in western Connecticut, he said.

The egg mass is orange, and adheres to the bottom.

Its egg mass is a sprawling white curl of several turns.

Several of these are joined together in an egg mass and attached to the substrate.

This is because males which stay with the egg mass cannot be detected by females.

Females are able to lay up to 1,000 eggs at a time in a large egg mass.

The egg masses are about 3.5 x 2 cm in overall size.

The whole egg mass looks rather like a bird dropping.

The egg masses, fairly large in size, range up to 1300 eggs.

The first egg masses are small and contain 60 to 80 embryos.