Help! Eggs found on leaves!!!

thestids

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Hey thanks for all the suggestions guys. Very much appreciated! No Ripster, I haven't gotten the chance to do a full check on all five plants yet, but will be doing so later this afternoon basically right after I get home from work. I'm not super worried though cause I've reset some LST wiring a couple times in the last couple weeks, the last time was Sunday, and I didn't see 'em before so I'm guessing whatever laid them did so pretty recently. So I don't think they would be hatching within the next day or two. Also I'm pretty sure they are not stink bug eggs. Yes we have them here, but if you look at a close up of my pic below they really don't look anything alike from the pictures I've seen. I'm still trying to find pictures of eggs that look alike but so far no luck. Take a look at this picture below and tell me what you think. Thanks
 

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thestids

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oh and I still have the leaves so I'm gonna keep an eye on them and hopefully they'll hatch so I'll know what they are and be sure to keep an eye out. I've killed a few spidermites here and there but since I did a spray down with alcohol and water about 4 weeks back and my ladybug release about 2 weeks ago, I haven't really seen more than a few so I'm not inclined to think that's where the eggs came from. Plus spidermite eggs look different as well from what I've seen. Whoever can accurately identify these little bad boys, gets a tip of the hat from me!
 

thestids

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So I just found this picture of a caterpillar egg cluster which looks more similar to "my" eggs than anything else I've seen. If they are in deed caterpillar eggs then I need to get those fuckers off! I've only found three leaves so far with them on and all three were on the same plant to hopefully it's not too widespread, but a thorough check is in order. Mainly I feel like I should be looking for the culprit, though none of the plants have much if any signs of chomping on leaves. So I'll keep yall posted on what I find out later today. Cheers!

Here's that Caterpillar Egg Cluster pic
http://www.uiweb.uidaho.edu/so-id/entomology/Western bean cutworm eggs.jpg
 

thestids

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Just a quick update. While removing all the LST wires I branded my headlamp and checked all five plants for anymore signs of eggs, larva, caterpillars, etc. and wasn't able to find anything else thus far. I don't think the eggs will hatch since I removed the leaves they were on. I think the eggs need the leaves to survive so they probably won't make it, but obviously that's for the best. I mean I don't like to kill anything, but of course sometimes it's needed in certain situations. But if anyone still has any leads on what insects would have emerged from these eggs I would really like to figure it out, just for my piece of mind. Anyways thanks again guys!
 

thestids

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Yeah Alborosie, I did burn them. Haven't seen any more signs of activity on that front so I'll keep an eye out. The "babies" are about a week and a half into flowering outside and they're looking good! I'll already unleashed a pouch of ladybugs on 'em about 2 or 3 weeks ago so I'll probably do that again in a couple weeks or so just to try and keep the critters at bay in the most natural and least harmful way I can. I recently got a Secret Jardin DR120w and I'm just waiting to get a couple 63w Penetrator LED's from HydroGrow. Hopefully sooner rather than later so I can flower 3 of the 5 inside and finish flowering the other 2 afterwards. Just need to scrounge up $550. I got 5 potted and rooted clones and 6 that are still in the propagator so we'll see how things go!
 

Alborosie

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good :) , yeep its the best way to get rid of bugs without buying lots of "pesticides" , nice man i hope you get some nice buds from it :D
 
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