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What are these eggs?

Gwynston · 2014-06-12 09:20:07

My son found these under some leaf litter on a small patch of scrub we have around our oil tank. Wondering what they are? The width of the tines on the fork are about 12mm, so the eggs are about 3mm in diameter. A quick google suggested they might be slug eggs, but I thought they looked a bit large and can't imagine a slug…

12-06-2014 10:20AM

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Gwynston

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My son found these under some leaf litter on a small patch of scrub we have around our oil tank. Wondering what they are?

The width of the tines on the fork are about 12mm, so the eggs are about 3mm in diameter. A quick google suggested they might be slug eggs, but I thought they looked a bit large and can't imagine a slug laying all those!

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#2 17-06-2014 03:25PM

aidoh

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I think they're centipede eggs.

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#3 17-06-2014 03:38PM

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Could be!

Most of them are gone now anyway - something must be nabbing them....

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#4 18-06-2014 01:08PM

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They look rather like slug eggs to me.

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