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tink3472 (Michele) Cantonment, FL(Zone 8b) Jul 21, 2010

These are on several of my plants. I assume they are the eggs of some insect. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

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tink3472 (Michele) Cantonment, FL(Zone 8b) Jul 21, 2010

Another photo

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trackinsand mid central, FL(Zone 9a) Jul 22, 2010

it looks more like fungus or just dead spots on the leaves. ferns can be prone to it and that looks like a fern of some kind.

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tink3472 (Michele) Cantonment, FL(Zone 8b) Jul 22, 2010

I thought so at first also, but I've seen it in different stages and you can see something growing inside.When I push on it with tweezers, fluid stuff comes out (like I squashed something). On the ones that you can tell are old there are tiny holes where the "things" inside have apparently hatched out. I can't seem to be around for an actual hatching of course. They aren't just on my fern. I have found some on a few of my other plants as well (nowhere near the fern). I have seen some type of leafhopper on some of the plants with these "things"on it and thought maybe it was leafhopper eggs but none of the photos I find online look like it.

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trackinsand mid central, FL(Zone 9a) Jul 23, 2010

hmm, i hope suunto pops in shortly. he may be able to help. the "blob" just doesn't look familiar to me.

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suunto Sinks Grove, WV Jul 23, 2010

I've been puzzling over this; it looks vaguely familiar, but my memory bank appears to have gone on strike. When I have some more time, I'll try doing some digging...

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trackinsand mid central, FL(Zone 9a) Jul 23, 2010

what about some kind of snail eggs?

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tink3472 (Michele) Cantonment, FL(Zone 8b) Jul 23, 2010

Well,I finally figured it out. Yeahhh. It's a glassy-winged sharpshooter (a type of leafhopper) egg that has been parasitized by parasitoid wasp. I actually put some leaves with the eggs on it that didn'tlook hatched in a glass with a coffee filter secured around the top so I could see what came out of it. Today there were these itty bitty winged insects inside. I had to get a magnifying glass to actually see what they were. They looked like microscopic wasps. So I googled it and came across the parositoid wasps. Thanks everyone for responding.

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trackinsand mid central, FL(Zone 9a) Jul 23, 2010

wow! how cool is that? i'm so glad there are people like you that are willing to go the extra mile to find out what stuff is....your curious nature paid off!

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suunto Sinks Grove, WV Jul 24, 2010

Excellent detective work! Have you considered entomology as a career?

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