![]() ![]() Someone mentioned root nodules, which would only be the case if they were directly connected to the root and looked like a hard, solid tuber inside (these are common but not limited to alocasias and calatheas for example). They aren’t eggs, and i’ve seen some come in gray and yellow colours but i‘m sure the whole rainbow exists. You can literally “pop them” and liquid fertilizer will come out. Some slow release fertilizer contain actual liquid inside the balls. so anything i can find to get rid of them will be money well spent. needless to say, I'm having a shower now! i need to stop them though because my hydrangea is all but dying. ![]() not in clusters - whether they started off this way or not I'm can't say. i came in to do a Google search and this thread came up so just wanted to add my findings to it. i pressed one to see if they were solid and it burst all over my spectacles :( i collected loads from around the roots of my plant and put them on the ground but pipes a couple more over the soil and a little grey coloured slime came out - these were definitely slug eggs. some had burst, some were dry and there were all sizes from tiny to BB pellet sized. this morning i was looking in my pots to see if the offender's had hidden back in the soil - and i found some of these small yellow 'things'. i out the torch setting on my mobile phone and saw slugs munching away at my hydrangea. last night i was laid in my peaceful garden on my hammock looking at the night sky - i heard a little sound like a rabbit eating lettuce but not as rapid - it loud. I watered my plumerias like this in my greenhouse and it worked. Now I am soaking all the pots in water with aphicide, whitefly and spidermite poison. Added to this, I have whitefly, aphids and spidermite feasting on my petunias. The larvae feed on the roots, so yes it will kill your plants. If they were not there before they are a pest. Yes some are pellets to drain the soil and some may be fertilizer. Go feed the ants with these things and you will see. It seems to be gnat eggs from another site that someone else posted a link to. The lady who said she clearly saw an embryo is right. These are definately eggs because ants will not carry off fertilizer to eat or feed their grubs. In my search today to find out what these things were I came across this forum. So I squished one, it popped and liquid came out. This morning while hunting an ant nest where I had emptied one of the pots I noticed that an ant was carrying off one of the smaller balls. I shook all the soil off before planting. Yesterday I noticed some of my petunias were just drying out and dying, so in the evening i planted them out in the garden. To all the people stating categorically that these are fertilizer balls - THEY ARE NOT. No odor, very little tracked litter, privacy for them and pretty line of green plants with no unsightly litter box for me. Keep it very clean, I use Fresh Step - only cat litter that I've tried that really works and also have an air purifier running right on the other side of their little privacy wall. You could also use a storage bench or low piece of furniture with the back side along the side of the litter box area. topped with air-purifying plants, so the cat corner is hidden from direct sight, the plants keep them from jumping up on the little wall and they walk out over the rug to reduce the tracking issue. Between that corner and the rest of the room is a small wall built with inexpensive cinderblock. ![]() It spreads their toes when they land on the texture, and much of the extra litter drops there and is easily cleaned. I had to put a cat perch on two posts at the opening, so my older cat would naturally walk in further to the end of the box (doesn't like the overhang) when she uses the litter box. The U shaped entry is in the short end of the box, not the middle, which pushes them further into the box and prevents missed aims outside the opening. This completely prevents 'missed aim' issues I had with store bought litter pans. With limited options in a small apartment, I too make my own litterbox out of a large plastic storage container, sans lid, as the cats prefer an uncovered box.
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