On 18/11/07 12:12, in article ,
"David in Normandy" wrote:

In article , Sacha
says...
Sounds very like it. Apparently, the eggs start off white but turn brown
near hatching. But do tell the gc next time you go - not in the spirit of
complaint but of information.
Did they look like these:
http://images.google.co.uk/images?hl...G=Search+Image
s&gbv=2


The eggs were too big to be vine weevil. They were around 1/4" diameter.
Based on the size of the clump they must have been laid by quite a big
slug.

You've still done yourself a favour, then. I've never seen vine weevil eggs
myself. But in planting daffs the other day, I moved a stone and there was
a huge slug underneath - one of those with an orange bit on it. It is now
an ex-slug.
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