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Help to ID this?
Denno666
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I've just noticed these growing on my wildflowers. They're next to my kale but I'm not sure if I should just leave them or is it best to get rid of the plants that have these eggs (presumably) on them?
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I cant see any eggs. Is it a poppy. It looks like something has nibbled and the poppy has exuded sap which has then gone black. I would leave them alone. If they've finished flowering you could remove them.
I'm not really sure what it is - it hasn't flowered yet but there are buds on them. Looking closer, they don't look like eggs
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I wouldn't say it covers most leaves, only a few and then only on some of the plants, not all of them. I have sweet peas growing next to them which haven't flowered yet (although they are threatening to grow taller than their canes). On the other side there are some kale plants and then onions (my Dad wasn't paying much attention when I was telling him about crop rotation, but never mind!). It also doesn't wash off.
I grow my wildflowers for the wildlife so if something makes use of them I'm very happy.
But like fidget I can't see any eggs or pest there
In the sticks near Peterborough
I think that what's happened is that a spider's web has caught these little black bits of something - then it's rained and the spider's web has dissolved in the rain, leaving the detritus behind on the leaves.
Not a problem for the plant
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
The black stuff is caterpillar poo.
Poor caterpillar!