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  • From: Tom Olenio <tolenio@sentex.net>
  • To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Eggs on Apple Leaf
  • Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2002 22:02:07 -0400

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






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