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valparaiso, in

What kind of bug lays eggs that look like vine borer eggs, but are black instead? Whatever it is has been laying eggs on my pumpkin, cucumber, tomato, and lettuce plants.

6/22/2010 6:30:30 PM

Anchorage, Alaska

http://www.extension.umn.edu/distribution/horticulture/images/M1208-2-lg.jpg

Are they similar to those? If so, it was a squash bug.

6/22/2010 10:49:53 PM

valparaiso, in

No the eggs are black, and are around the stems. I am only finding them by themselves, not in clusters.

6/22/2010 11:56:28 PM

Ctpumpkin@optonline.net

Sounds like a garden variety butterfly but a firm diagnosis s desirable.

6/23/2010 11:12:41 AM

Bureau County Il

wow.... never seen that before could be a lot of things, just use your insecticides
get that area good

6/27/2010 4:52:20 AM

valparaiso, in

After the mini monsoon we had I am led to think that the black eggs I have been seeing are seeds from some weed or plant. Not sure. Went out after the rain and there were too many of them on the leaves and plants for it to be from a bug. The neighbors also had a bunch of them. I am just going to spray and pray.

6/27/2010 7:49:06 PM

Litchfield N. H. 03052

Its the squash bug's eggs.

6/27/2010 8:46:02 PM