Gardening Questions Are these caterpillar eggs?

They would be more than likely caterpillar eggs especially if the are clustered on the underside of the leaves.

Thanks Wyeboy. The little blighters. I'm off out there now. They're actually nestled inside the cup of the leaves.

Errr - ummm - caterpillars don't lay eggs, it's the butterflies that do that ;-) (I don't quite think you meant that, Wyeboy, did you? It just sounded funny!) Watch out Peter - you are in for an invasion! Get them off your cabbages before the hatch - or no cabbages. And kindly watch your language!

Sorry Spritz - language adjusted :o) You know I even thought caterpillar eggs sounded wrong when I wrote the question.

I think (hope) that I got them all off, although they were right down in between the leaves so I had to poke them out with a twig. Then zen calm that the snail received the other day was all worn out and they met a grizzly demise (although the eggs are so soft it would be very difficult not to squash them).

Not called the cabbage white butterfly for nothing!Munch bunch.

Are you sure they're eggs. I thought butterfly eggs were yellow. Maybe what you have here are caterpillar droppings. Whatever, either way you have caterpillars somewhere!

Hi Joannie, I'm not sure at all. Are caterpillar droppings green and crumbly? I found quite a big caterpillar on this lettuce the same day I found the 'eggs'. Hmmm - what have I been crushing without mercy!?

What you are seeing, Peter is excrement! No they are not eggs, as Joannie says they are a different size and colour. I have no doubt it's poop! The source is the catterpillar...LOL...thanks for the smile!!

Yes , how stupid of me I mean't butterfly eggs but looking again at the picture I think Lori is right it is caterpillar droppings but the way the plant is eaten I don't think it is a cabbage white, something bigger I fear!!!!By the amount eaten you would have found a good colony of cabbage white caterpillars.

Thanks (I think) for the update. The caterpillar was about an inch and a half long, apparently suffering from diarrhoea. No more leaves eaten since.

Yes i think they are indeed butterfly eggs cause if u go to this link the eggs actually turn from yellow to the colour you've described.....

http://www.milkweedcafe.com/hatchingegg.htm