Eggs on tomato leaves- good or bad?

kath · May 22, 2012

So I'm already in aphid squishing mode and worried about wiping out beneficial eggs along with the bad guys. Does anyone have a link to or recommendation of a book that is a good garden resource with pictures of eggs found in the garden?

I've been searching on Google for quite a while looking for a good resource for identification of the different eggs that might be found on tomato leaves. I'm familiar with green lacewing, lady beetle & hornworm eggs, but I found nearly 100 tiny white eggs that look like pearls on the underside of a rather small tomato leaf. Under 15x magnification there doesn't appear to be any color difference, indentation, etc. The closest I found were some type of butterfly eggs. Do they sound like eggs of a beneficial or do they get squished?

Thanks,

kath

May 22, 2012	#1
kath Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: zone 6b, PA Posts: 5,664	Eggs on tomato leaves- good or bad? So I'm already in aphid squishing mode and worried about wiping out beneficial eggs along with the bad guys. Does anyone have a link to or recommendation of a book that is a good garden resource with pictures of eggs found in the garden? I've been searching on Google for quite a while looking for a good resource for identification of the different eggs that might be found on tomato leaves. I'm familiar with green lacewing, lady beetle & hornworm eggs, but I found nearly 100 tiny white eggs that look like pearls on the underside of a rather small tomato leaf. Under 15x magnification there doesn't appear to be any color difference, indentation, etc. The closest I found were some type of butterfly eggs. Do they sound like eggs of a beneficial or do they get squished? Thanks, kath