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[Tom Olenio <tolenio@sentex.net>]

Hi,

What about food caches of the spider?  Wrapped bugs, injected with digestive 
fluids by the
spider?

Possible.

Later,
Tom

Ginda Fisher wrote:

> This evening, I looked at my young Jonathan apple, and noticed that the
> underside of one leaf was about half covered with tiny gray eggs.  The
> leaf was otherwise healthy.  the eggs adhered somehow to the hairs on
> the leaf.  There was a tiny spider hanging out with the eggs.  Most of
> the eggs were intact, but a few were black and ruined.  The eggs were in
> a single layer, densely packed together.  They were nearly spherical,
> and pearly gray.  Each was about 1mm across.  The insides of a few that
> I broke were just goo - no baby bug, yet.
>
> Do you think the spider was protecting the eggs (hers?) or eating them?
>
> Unless I hear a good case for the eggs belonging to the spider, I plan
> to remove the leaf and destroy them.
>
> Thanks,
> Ginda
>
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Thomas Olenio
Ontario, Canada
Hardiness Zone 6a