CLOSED: Insect Egg Identification: Good or Bad???

loveblossoms CA, United States(Zone 8b) May 20, 2009

Please help. I found these eggs on the underside of my Habanero seedling plant this morning. I'd like to know which insect they belong to: Beneficial or Pest? Thanks!

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wren107 Jacksonville, FL(Zone 8b) May 20, 2009

closer picture?

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loveblossoms CA, United States(Zone 8b) May 20, 2009

sorry, please click here for a closer look: http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/991456/

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wren107 Jacksonville, FL(Zone 8b) May 20, 2009

I am no expert but I would guest that those are some kind of caterpillar eggs. Usually beneficial insect eggs are laid near or on the pest that they feed on. So if no one can Id it I would remove them.

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loveblossoms CA, United States(Zone 8b) May 20, 2009

it's hard to make out in the pics, but when i look at them with the naked eye, i can barely make out what looks to be an indentation in the center of each egg-maybe like a donut--something like a puncture that the point of a pin would make in the center of the egg.

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