What can these be?

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  1. fairway04

    fairway04 Apprentice Gardener

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    Hi have yellow type eggs in clumps in my greenhouse that are on top of the compost/horse manure mix. What are these?

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    Can you post a pic, I would have thought too early for butterflies , they could be slug eggs , or vine weevil
     
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    Slug or snail eggs are either clear or milky coloured and Vine weevil eggs are too small to be seen easily with the naked eye.
     
  5. Phil A

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    You don't own a Bantam by any chance ?:WINK1::heehee:
     
  6. fairway04

    fairway04 Apprentice Gardener

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    will try to get a pic up i think it is something that was in the horse manure as i added the manure about 6 weeks ago.
     
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    Sounds like slug eggs to me ! We have big orange horrendous things sometimes as big as 4 inches plus really really gross!!!
     
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    Pictures

    Here are some pictures i took this morning
     

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    id go with choppers reply,look like slug eggs to me :)
     
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    ok would they have come in the horse manure?
     
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    fairway04 Apprentice Gardener

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    slug eggs?

    if these are slug eggs then my greenhouse is full of them, all stuck in clubs on the horse manure.What can i do to kill them without harming plants that i have allready planted?
     
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    Looks more like a fungal growth to me.:dbgrtmb:
     
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    I agree with Dai ,the first picture struck me as a fungal growth ,could not really see the other two very clear...:scratch:
     
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    Marley will id it if it`s a fungus.:dbgrtmb:
     
  15. pete

    pete Growing a bit of this and a bit of that....

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    I'd say fungal as well.
    If its on manure, I doubt its a problem.

    Just natures way of breaking the stuff down.
     

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