Tiny egg clusters on lawn???

Is anybody able to help me identify this ? Over the last week or so clusters of tiny purple/lavender coloured egg like things had appeared on our lawn clinging to the blades of grass - it's been quite wet here for a week or so, so when I get chance to mow I assume they'll be erradicated, If you brush them they disappear in a cloud of dark dust!

I just wondered if anyone knew what they were as a web search produced nothing and my wife is scared stiff of them, I had to stop her pouring boiling water on the grass :eek:

 

I have pics, I'll retrieve them and post them up shorty.

 

Piccys as promised!

 

Don't recognise them, but the 'puff of dust' suggests fungal spores to me.

 

It's a slime mould. Physarum cinereum to be precise. It's unsightly but harmless.


http://pick5.pick.uga.edu/mp/20q?search=Physarum+cinereum

 

Mystery solved!

Thanks

 

Sypmtamatic of the wet summer weve had.

For a few really good lawns I look after I ocasionally spray with chipco green (turf fungicide) to gaurd against this sort of thing and red thred etc.