Identify these Insect Eggs?

OhioGardener 7/4/2023, 12:17 pm

Can anyone identify what these insect eggs on a Spinach leaf are? Rather than being in a cluster, they have a very fine web binding them together.

**sanderson** 7/4/2023, 10:31 pm

I have forwarded the photo and description to a SFG in Maine that is real good on identification.

**sanderson** 7/5/2023, 3:24 am

Advice: "This almost looks like a cluster of leaf miners - but I've never seen them like this.
I'd put this in a jar and wait and see."

OhioGardener 7/5/2023, 10:17 am

sanderson wrote:Advice: "This almost looks like a cluster of leaf miners - but I've never seen them like this.
I'd put this in a jar and wait and see."

Thanks!

I took them to a friend at the Extension Office, and he identified them as Beet & Spinach Leaf Miners. He suggested I continually watch the beets, swiss chard, and spinach for any leaf miner damage, and destroy any leaves before the larva can mature. I'll also watch for any more egg clusters.

**sanderson** 7/5/2023, 2:54 pm

I'll report back to the insect lady. Very Happy

Soose 7/8/2023, 7:10 am

OhioGardener wrote:Can anyone identify what these insect eggs on a Spinach leaf are? Rather than being in a cluster, they have a very fine web binding them together.

I'd "like" this post but photos of insect eggs give me the willies, always have. I cannot make myself like it.. so let me say instead I appreciate the thread and advice to put it in a jar and see what develops.

What else do we need to know about leaf miners? Never heard of them.

Swiftloulou 7/8/2023, 8:29 am

Hello, these are no eggs but pupae of a parasitic wasp (possibly Cotesia) on what probably was a caterpillar. So these pupae will hatch and a dozen or more wasps will emerge and then they will mate. The females will lay their eggs on other caterpillars. They are our allies in the garden.

Yours,
Louis-Philippe
Leuven, Belgium.

Soose 7/8/2023, 9:58 am

Are we talking about the yellow mass of something, or the white dots in the photo?

Swiftloulou 7/8/2023, 11:35 am

The yellow mass.

**Scorpio Rising** 7/9/2023, 11:51 am

Here is some information:

https://okrainmygarden.com/how-to-treat-leaf-miners-organically/

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