Eggs in plant pots

I am a new member with a question relating to plant pots. My question is about what appears to be insect eggs in the compost within the pot. The eggs are in clusters,are yellow in colour and there are well over a hundred in each cluster. I thought that they might be Vine Weevil eggs but I am not sure. Has anybody else had these things and does anyone know what they are?. As I dont think that they would be good for my garden or plants in the pots I destroyed them

 

Yes, well, the most frequently asked question on all garden sites. these are in fact slow release fertilsier capsules, put in by the grower to feed the plants slowly until they are in the garden.
Vine weevil eggs are too small to see with the naked eye as indeed are all but snail and slug eggs which are either clear or white.
Don't worry, one person I know of, went as far as returning the plant to the Nursery and demanding her money back and refused to believe that these orange eggs were supposed to be there.

 

[align=left]Hi Palustrus and thank you very much for your quick response. One thing that I have to add to original post is that the plant pot was filled with compost from B & Q last year and we grew a Fuschia in it which died due to the very cold weather. We were trying to boost up the pot by removing the top layer and replenishing it when we discovered the eggs????. I have put some in a jar and will wait to see what happens. I do not disbelieve you but my difficulty is in understanding how fertiliser capsules would have got into the plant pot[/align]

 

If you bought the fuschia and it was growing in a pot the slow release fertilizer may well have been in that soil ball.

Can you show a picture?

 

Palustris is 100% right. It is definitely what is left of slow release fertiliser.:gnthb:

 

Thanks all for the detail and when I asked my wife about the plant pot - well!!!! I wont tell you what she called me BUT!!! apparently I am wrong in that the pot was not filled last year but the year before and we also had some violas growing in it along with the fushia cutting that we germinated. So the end story is that the so called eggs are as you say probably fertiliser capsules that were in the plants that we purchased. I am quite happy that they're not bug eggs and again thanks to all who responded.

 

The only point I would add, is that if they are old they won't hold any fertiliser any more. I think that things like Osmacot consist of small balls of fertiliser with a yellow coating of another material that slowly dissolves. Once the yellow coating has disolved in one place the fertiliser content is released, but it leaves the empty yellow containers behind.