Could these be ladybugs? These are the eggs on a leaf of the fig tree.I feel responsible for them! I don't see any aphids. What will they eat? How will they survive? Should I make tiny ladybug bottles and go out there every fifteen minutes to give them a drink?
Does anyone have cast off strollers or onesies?
7 comments:
Wow! They are beautiful - whatever they are.. They look like ladybugs to me too.
Please keep us updated with their development. It will be like a biology lesson - I've never seen ladybugs grow up. Do they have terrible two's and grumpy teenage-stages too?
Hmm, those are the strangest looking lady bugs I've ever seen. Hope they are lady bugs and nothing harmful to your fig tree.
The larva of a ladybug/bird is a funny-looking thing, flat, just short of a cm long, stripes, runs about quickly on its six legs. If someone (Lyn) had not told me I would never have known. It bears little resemblance to a ladybug/bird
Indeed, Hen - I know them as the slender worm-like creatures, but are these what they look like right out of the egg, do you think?
Check your e-mail - I have sent you some pics and info on bugs and ladybirds - can't work out how to put this sort of info on your blog. Hope you find it interesting
Lyn
Ummm, I'm about 85% sure that you have a very healthy brood of harliquine bugs ... I would suggest perhaps uprooting the happy family to the nearest park so they may feast on things other than your beloved patio friends...
german girl
They look like they could be ladybug larva, though I recognize them best when they are a little bigger. Maybe wait and see what they do. Even though there are no aphids on the fig tree, the mother ladybug must have had a reason to lay eggs there. Or maybe it wasn't a ladybug after all.
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