Good (Insect) Eggs or Bad (Insect) Eggs?

LilBittyBean 10/3/2019, 3:33 pm

Help! Found some eggs on the underside of one of my lemon bee balm plants. Not sure if you can see from the pic, but each little egg is attached to the leaf with a very tiny filament. Tried searching around the internet but didn't find anything helpful.

Can anyone venture a guess as to what these are? Trying to determine whether to leave them be or drown them! Thanks!!

Good (Insect) Eggs or Bad (Insect) Eggs? Plantbugs1

Good (Insect) Eggs or Bad (Insect) Eggs? Plantbugs1

LilBittyBean 10/3/2019, 3:36 pm

More Googling and I think the eggs are beneficial green lacewings. Anyone have any other ideas?

**sanderson** 10/10/2019, 4:35 am

I clicked on the link but didn't see any photo. Glad they are beneficials.

LilBittyBean 10/10/2019, 10:08 am

sanderson wrote:I clicked on the link but didn't see any photo. Glad they are beneficials.

Thanks, sanderson! I'm glad, too!

As for the photo, I'm not terribly sure why it's not working.

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Good (Insect) Eggs or Bad (Insect) Eggs?

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OOPS! I found the answer!

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