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Strange eggs on the underside of my tomato plant
I found a cluster of bright green eggs on the underside of a leaf on my tomato plant. I live in Cambridgeshire in the UK. I took them into school to show the children I teach and they have hatched. They look like very small black/brown beetles? ( approx 1.5mm) They do not move and are all clustered together. I have never seen anything like them and I cannot find anything on the internet. What can they be?
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Do you have a photograph? |
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Were the eggs in a line or a round cluster? They may be moth larvae rather than beetles. Have you looked at them under a lens? A picture would help.
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I will try to photograph them tomorrow. Thanks
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They were lined up in a four rows to make a cluster.
They were very bright green and about 1-2mm long. They seemed to appear in the day... but I can't be sure of this fact. The hatchings all look very small beetle like... not disimilar to a very, very tiny black ladybird but they are not moving and don't respond when touched? |
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I'm still thinking moth, but I'll wait on pix
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Did they look like this?
Eggs and hatchlings - BugGuide.Net Here are pictures of the various species of nymphs pentatomid nymphs - Google Image Search |
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