• Post Reply Bookmark Topic Watch Topic
  • New Topic
permaculture forums growies critters building homesteading energy monies kitchen purity ungarbage community wilderness fiber arts art permaculture artisans regional education skip experiences global resources cider press projects digital market permies.com pie forums private forums all forums
this forum made possible by our volunteer staff, including ...
master stewards:
  • Carla Burke
  • Nancy Reading
  • r ranson
  • Jay Angler
  • John F Dean
  • Pearl Sutton
stewards:
  • Nicole Alderman
  • paul wheaton
  • Anne Miller
master gardeners:
  • Christopher Weeks
  • Timothy Norton
gardeners:
  • thomas rubino
  • Jeremy VanGelder
  • Matt McSpadden

what kind of insect laid these eggs?

 
Posts: 100
2
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
I found these eggs on my turnip plants this evening. Was just wondering if they belong to a beneficial insect or something harmful to the garden. If they are beneficial I will leave them, if they are harmful they will be chicken food.
Edit- I can't get the pics to upload. The eggs are small clusters that look just like all white slightly fuzzy ladybug eggs. Maybe just a tiny bit larger. I found ants on one cluster that seemed to be tending them.
 
steward
Posts: 3999
Location: Wellington, New Zealand. Temperate, coastal, sandy, windy,
115
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
John, without a photo I'm totally guessing, but have a look at 'cabbage moth' eggs. They like turnips...
I've come to a certain equilibrium with these guys and find there's a massive population-explosion of parasitic wasps in a really bad 'cabbage butterfly' year.
Or something else entirely!
Try uploading again?
 
John Brownlee
Posts: 100
2
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
Leila,
I tried uploading again. Technology hates me. That's why i like plants.
I looked up cabbage moth eggs, that's not it. These were totally white and laid almost in a clump on top of each other, not in a neat cluster.
I almost hated to do it since i wasn't sure, but they did become chicken snacks.
 
If you two don't stop this rough-housing somebody is going to end up crying. Sit down and read this tiny ad:
permaculture bootcamp - learn permaculture through a little hard work
https://permies.com/wiki/bootcamp
reply
    Bookmark Topic Watch Topic
  • New Topic