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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2006 7:03:55 GMT
Sorry I haven't got a photo so I'll try to describe - They are like a string of opaque oval glass beads about 5mm across and I found them on the edge of one of my rockery/flower beds.
I don't know if they are a pest's eggs or whether they belong to someone a bit more glorious, but the last time I found some 'exotic' eggs, or so I thought, they turned out to be snails' eggs!
Please don't tell me they're slug's eggs, but if they were, being plagued by them as I am, I'm sure I would have known this by now.....
Anybody know what they are by my description? There about 15 of them on the 'string'.
Thanks!
Debbie
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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2006 10:04:35 GMT
This is looking good, no replies as yet, must be something exciting...........?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2006 10:50:13 GMT
It's difficult without a photo  I hope for your sake they aren't slug eggs - 5mm across sounds a bit large for slug eggs though! |
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Post by sleepysunday on Oct 4, 2006 11:02:35 GMT
5mm across suggests something between a snails egg and a chickens egg!
Baby dragons? Nahhh... too small
Do griffins lay eggs? Still too small for griffins though
Builders lay eggs.... oh no, that's bricks...
Err...
Nope, I'm stumped!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2006 13:32:29 GMT
If it was a piece of jewellery it would be very pretty, but what we've got here is a glutinous mass with what looks like 'beings' inside the beads.....I thought of toads but they would lay in water wouldn't they? Mind you I've had some frogspawn on the patio!  |
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Post by sleepysunday on Oct 4, 2006 13:38:07 GMT
Sounds very dodgy to me. Sort of cross between Invasion of the bodysnatchers and War of the Worlds. The trouble is if these extraterrestrial ovoid life forms (we have established they are extraterrestrial haven't we?) should be aggressive and bent of world domination then we might not know. The 'taken over' body of Mrs Beige might continue posting as if nothing has happened so as not to raise suspicions until it's too late...
It might have already happened...
Or they could be very large snails eggs. Why not set up a terrarium, plonk them in the middle and see what happens?
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Post by 4pygmies on Oct 4, 2006 15:07:58 GMT
DON'T TAKE THEM INTO YOUR HOME Mrs Beige!! It's just what they're waiting for - really Sleepy! Have you been at the Chablais in your little office......I have no idea what they are but they sound very dodgy. Insects of some sort, maybe rodentoid slugs, capybara mating with wood lice,erm, .......hope someone knows. I shall be disappointed if they're something dull now.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2006 15:18:26 GMT
Come to think of it, I did come over a little queer earlier on, just after finding them funnily enough. So if they've got me anyway it won't hurt to take 'em indoors.....put the children out on the rockery and nurture the little ovoid darlings, use hubby as a host, start savaging raw meat, that kind of thing?
Oh no you lot are wearing off on me.......
Just let 'em be something dull, 'cos now I'm one of them.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2006 11:29:57 GMT
Just had a look on some sluggy websites and by the description of the eggs it looks as if my exotics are just plain old slimies. Got excited to start with as the first website described the eggs as white, I thought yippee, then got well deflated on reading the next few websites' descriptions. They can be transparent too and about the same size as these, about the same quantity but laid in clusters. These look definitely like a string but who am I kidding they are slug's eggs, almost certain of it grrr.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2006 11:35:44 GMT
Oh dear, shame  I guess you have put them in the bin now then? |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2006 13:34:48 GMT
Not quite yet. They are so different from the clusters of snails' eggs I've found. I might just put them in something and wait for the grand hatching.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2006 13:46:52 GMT
Why not indeed - I wonder how long it will take  My money is on them being snail eggs  |
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Post by sleepysunday on Oct 5, 2006 13:47:57 GMT
My money is still on aliens
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2006 14:02:35 GMT
How much are you betting SS?  or  |
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Post by sleepysunday on Oct 5, 2006 14:15:24 GMT
I have to be careful. How do I know you haven't been assimilated also? The deck could be stacked against me.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2006 14:48:22 GMT
OMG you should have said something sooner .......... it's too late for me now...................  byeeeee ...... see you in a couple of light years |
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Post by Cheerypeabrain on Oct 5, 2006 15:19:19 GMT
Resistance Is Futile I think that they sound like slug or snail eggs . Sorry. Hopefully as they are exposed the birds will eat them up for you. I've been using Advanced Slug Pellets this year so don't have many grown up molluscs marauding the borders...however I've noticed quite a few teeny-weeny ones sliming about...they look quite sweet...I spose I should kill 'em all anyway...but they're only babies... |
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Post by magrich on Oct 10, 2006 23:06:36 GMT
they may only be babies NOW, but babies grow... beware they are trying to take over the world!!!
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