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  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    punkdoc says:
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     That's a good picture PD, it clearly shows Ladybird eggs as yellow and elongated, not white and round as OP. 

    Your picture also clearly shows what they are like when just emerging from the egg.

    Last edited: 09 July 2017 09:50:45

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    fidgetbones says:

    The third photo down is so similar to your original photo.

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     Fidget - I doubt the veracity of that photo ... it has been taken from the blog of a private individual posting from her New York garden ... she posted the photo with the caption

    "Could these be ladybugs? These are the eggs on a leaf of the fig tree.

    I feel responsible for them! I don't see any aphids. What will they eat? How will they survive? Should I make tiny ladybug bottles and go out there every fifteen minutes to give them a drink?"

    http://66squarefeet.blogspot.co.uk/2010/08/larvae.html 

    Hardly a reputable source. 

    Now whenever you Google 'ladybirds' that photo comes up image

    We have to be very careful not to take stuff on the internet at face value ... we have to check the sources as much as we can ... not only is there Fake News, there's Fake Almost Everything image

    Last edited: 09 July 2017 10:02:48


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • JamesOJamesO Posts: 230

    Well whatever they were I hope I have done the right thing with the limited info I have either way a small group like that wont be a to bigger loss the rate bugs have birth sessions. 

  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190

    I think you have James, definitely not ladybirds.

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

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