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White eggs ID

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  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I’ve just crushed another lot of those from my snails, they were as hard as chickens egg to crush. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • CharlotteFCharlotteF Posts: 337
    Lyn said:
    I’ve just crushed another lot of those from my snails, they were as hard as chickens egg to crush. 
    The ones I squished weren't hard, but did have a crispiness to them so perhaps they were small snails. Confident they were a mollusc of some kind anyway, they were hiding along the sleeper edge right near a devastated dahlia!
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    edited October 2021
    Nothing worse than a devastated dahlia. 

    Apart from a sad sunflower   :D
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I think the snails eggs are harder as they need lots of calcium for the shells to grow,  they may eat the shells after they’ve hatched, I don’t know, I get rid of them before that stage although this little one escaped the last squash, they hatched before I realised they were there, this one missed the cull so I had to keep it.
    hard to believe he’ll be about 6” long in a years time. 

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Good point @Lyn re the calcium. I've never really thought about it, but that makes sense.
    Unless you have teeny weeny hands, that looks bigger than the one I found yesterday. It didn't last long anyway  ;)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • Balgay.HillBalgay.Hill Posts: 1,089
    Put them next to the bird feeders. :)
    Sunny Dundee
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Hmmm they look like Spanish Slug eggs to me 



    Have a look here https://www.slughelp.com/spanish-slug-arion-vulgaris/
    We get them in our garden  >:)



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





  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Do those have hard shells @dove,  haven’t clicked on the link, slugs are usually soft shelled.
    That baby there is about a week old @Fairygirl they grow very quickly.
    snail eggs. This was yesterday’s offering 🙂

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    They're soft @lyn like other slug eggs but opaque white.  I've watched a Spanish Slug laying them. 

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





  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Not to be outdone...

    I picked this one of the Phormium. Slightly smaller than the ones that usually lurk in there  :D


    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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