Hello! I bought a bag of coconut coir from home depot and added it to my snake's enclosure, only to notice these small, round, bright brown balls in the substrate. my immediate thought was some kind of insect eggs.
I took the first one I found and I popped it with my fingers to test if it was a piece of strange dirt or something. The closest thing I was able to find that looked like these were rhinoceros beetle eggs, which those beetles are a pest with coconut husk so that's my hypothesis.
additional info: they are varying sizes and the biggest one I saw so far was about half the size of a pea. They definitely aren't eggs for knats or mites, as I assume those are microscopic.
please let me know what you think they may be ASAP! I really wanna know if they are safe or not.