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Mount Holly, Arkansas

I found a cache of some curious looking egg type things in a potted plant's soil nearby the garden. Anyone know what a cuke beetle egg looks like?

4/24/2006 3:14:21 PM

Billerica,Massachusetts

Eggs are oval, orange-yellow in color, and are found in clusters of 25-50 on undersides of leaves

4/24/2006 3:24:10 PM

Menomonie, WI (mail@gr8pumpkin.net)

Hate to disagree but Cucumber Beetles lay eggs in the soil and the larvae then eat the roots of the plant. Then emerge later in the season.

4/24/2006 4:19:28 PM

Menomonie, WI (mail@gr8pumpkin.net)

http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/2000/2139.html

Here is an excellent website detailing the life of a cuke beetle.

4/24/2006 4:22:40 PM

Billerica,Massachusetts

then you better talk to the people at north carolina coop as thats where the information comes from.

http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/ent/notes/Vegetables/veg025e/veg025e.htm

4/24/2006 4:39:13 PM

Menomonie, WI (mail@gr8pumpkin.net)

Them people from North Carolina can't tell cheese curds from cottage cheese...:)

4/24/2006 4:46:59 PM

Ctpumpkin@optonline.net

Cottage cheese isn't cheese curds????? Little Miss Muffet had some freakish habits. Ugh.

4/24/2006 6:35:22 PM

Ctpumpkin@optonline.net

Oh yeah...Squash Bug eggs are little red buggers that you might be finding.

http://www.lane-ag.org/wm-world/Cucurbit_Manual/SQBUGEGGS.JPG

4/24/2006 6:36:50 PM

Mount Holly, Arkansas

What I found are like pods of clear/yellowish round liquid filled things (2" under the soil)?? Is that as clear as mud?

4/24/2006 11:15:16 PM

Ctpumpkin@optonline.net

That sounds like an earthworm egg case.

4/24/2006 11:48:13 PM

Ctpumpkin@optonline.net

I'm trying to find a picture of an Eathworm egg capsule 7 look what I found instead:

http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/invasives/terrestrialanimals/earthworms/index.html

Earthworms as an invasive species. Sad but true.

4/24/2006 11:53:47 PM

Ctpumpkin@optonline.net

Here we go. About half way down this page;

http://sps.k12.ar.us/massengale/earthworm%20facts.htm

Is this what you found?

4/24/2006 11:54:52 PM

Mount Holly, Arkansas

Steve, You ARE the man! That is what I found. Whew, I'm not so worried now, I just assumed the worst. Thanks!

4/25/2006 10:05:07 PM