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Posted: **Thu Apr 24, 2008 2:26 am**

What about Toads?

Cheers

Peter

Posted: **Thu Apr 24, 2008 5:23 am**

As far as I know toads lay their eggs in water, and their spawn is a long string shape unlike frog spawn which is laid in a clump.

I have no idea what the 'eggs' are but I hope you will keep us informed when they turn (mutate) into something else!

Posted: **Thu Apr 24, 2008 6:32 am**

yup,i am really interested in knowing what these turn into! keep us informed.

Posted: **Thu Apr 24, 2008 7:26 am**

grahoom wrote:yup,i am really interested in knowing what these turn into! keep us informed.

I certainly will.

Thanks to everyone who's had a look at these, particularly MKG for putting my mind (slightly) at rest that I'm not going to get over-run by a few million slugs or snails!

Hopefully whatever it is won't be partial to spuds or onions...

Posted: **Thu Apr 24, 2008 7:46 am**

I have narrowed it down to just 3 possibilities.

It's either animal, vegetable or mineral.

MINESAPINT

Posted: **Thu Apr 24, 2008 10:22 am**

I've been looking into slime moulds and jelly fungi a bit more deeply. It may be that the identification of your mystery "stuff" is because surprisingly little is known about the immature stages of those things. Save those photos - you may be onto a scientific breakthrough!

Posted: **Thu Apr 24, 2008 6:19 pm**

does look more like spores than eggs to me

Posted: **Sat May 10, 2008 1:40 pm**

Anything new?

Posted: **Tue May 13, 2008 9:13 am**

JustinFun wrote:Well, I went back out this evening, and found some more in my prospective potato bed! If these are a nasty I think I'm going to have to move...

Anyway, here's some pictures. To give you an idea of the size of these things, the dead stems you can see are grass stems:

If these embedded images don't work, here's a link (and can you please tell me if they don't work - not sure if it's possible to directly link to picassa):

http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/justin.fun/Eggs

So... any ideas?

chances are picasa has an anti leech setting so that the images on their server can't be viewed on other websites, only a guess.

Posted: **Tue May 13, 2008 1:26 pm**

MKG wrote:Anything new?

Not last time I looked - I'll have another check tonight and let you know.

Is the forum meant to be this pink now, or is it just me?

Posted: **Tue May 13, 2008 2:06 pm**

Hmmm - top and bottom are a deal greener, but pink I don't see.

Posted: **Wed May 14, 2008 6:20 am**

There's a current thread about forum changes somewhere - can't remember what it's called, sorry. Nobody has complained of any pink though!!!

Posted: **Wed May 14, 2008 7:29 am**

Millymollymandy wrote:There's a current thread about forum changes somewhere - can't remember what it's called, sorry. Nobody has complained of any pink though!!!

It was like a tiled pink pattern as the background, and the posts were coming in striped - alternately green and pink. Not the most beautiful sight. Must have been a glitch on my browser.

Anyway, the 'eggs' still look exactly the same, which makes me think even more that they can't be insect eggs - correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm assuming insect eggs would tend to have a fairly short gestation period?

Posted: **Wed May 14, 2008 8:13 am**

Yep - they would certainly have changed form, so eggs are off the menu.

Posted: **Wed May 14, 2008 10:58 am**

If anyone is particularly interested in my mysterious substance, PM me your address and I'll pop some in the post to you - I'd happily pay the cost of a stamp for another opinion!

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Unidentified eggs (millions of them!) any ideas?