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Old 14-05-2008, 10:53 AM
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Hi, what may have laid the tiny cluster of bright orange eggs on my onion leaf?
Hope it was not ladybirds as i have removed them
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Old 14-05-2008, 11:44 AM
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Difficult to say without a picture.
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Old 14-05-2008, 11:46 AM
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sorry! size of butterfly eggs and all packed together on onion leaf about 2mm by 3mm area of eggs
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Well the butterflies that were infesting my brassicas last year laid orange eggs. Couldn't be them could it - on their hols maybe?
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