eeew egss! What are they?

[Hollie the Wollie]

I woke up this morning to find around 10 yucky little eggs on one of my containers for lettuce. I only sowed the seeds last week so there is no lettuce there.

I took a quick pic using my phone so its not super clear. They were oval shaped opaque-milky-white maybe 3mm x 2mm - so not really small at all.

I have flicked them out off the trough with a spade but I am intriqued as to what they were! Any ideas?!

[mikeyboy]

Hi HtW, I was told on here to put eggs in a jar with something like nylon stocking material over the top so they get air and wait for them to hatch.

Can you still see them on the floor?

If so then get a bit of soil and drop them on top and play the waiting game...

[bettie sage]

did you use shop bought compost?.if so id complain as they may have been in there

they sound like ants eggs but much too big ,either that or youre breeding giant ants
i do hope theyre not in all your containers Hol

[Hollie the Wollie]

eeew giant ants! I sincerely hope not!

It was shop-bought compost but they just appeared over-night, resting very very lightly on the soil so I can only imagine whatever laid them landed on the soil, rather than it coming up out of it. Perhaps not.

I checked the other containers and they were only on the one.

[Hollie the Wollie]

Originally Posted by mikeyboy

Hi HtW, I was told on here to put eggs in a jar with something like nylon stocking material over the top so they get air and wait for them to hatch.

Can you still see them on the floor?

If so then get a bit of soil and drop them on top and play the waiting game...

Eeew yuck! I threw them onto the floor and Im now at work so I expect (and half hope) they have either been eaten or blown away by the time I get home.

[Lesley Jay]

Hi Hollie, those eggs look as if your favourite slug or snail has left you a present!! The birds will eat them.

[Hollie the Wollie]

Are they eggs?! do slugs and snails lay eggs?! I thought they... well, I hadn't ever thought what they do but I didn't think they laid eggs!

[Hollie the Wollie]

Perhaps I should have considered this instead...

http://caviar-de-caracol.com/images/snail%20eggs.jpg

[Little tom]

Yummy! I think I could try this stuff...
(But I'm French in case I never said before, so I'm biased )