What's this in my shed then...?

[Feistybird]

A mass (about the size of my hand) of small grey black metallic-looking shiny balls (looks a bit like caviar, only bigger).

I guess they're eggs of some sort, I would just like to know what I'm going to be infested with, when they hatch....

[starlover]

i would hazard a guess at some kind of butterfly, moyth

well.. obviously caterpillars when they hatch

[starlover]

anything like \link[http://www.doubledw.us/DSC_3142-moth-eggs.jpg\this?}

[Feistybird]

oh hope so SL, dds would love that - just not keen on red ants, spiders (double shudder) etc.

[starlover]

oops \link{http://www.doubledw.us/DSC_3142-moth-eggs.jpg\this?}

[Feistybird]

yes, only black and they are piled up on one another, about a couple of cm - I prodded them (gently) with a broom handle and they are soft.

[NomDePlume]

eeeeeeeeeeeeeekkkkkkkkkk, I'd be running out of the shed faster than my feet can carry me at the first sight of 'eggs' in my shed

[Feistybird]

NdP, know what you mean, gave me a definite shudder and I won't go in there, feel a bit of a wuss about it really....but they are quite beautiful really - looks like molten metal.

[starlover]

well put them in a box or something.. then you won't have a shedful of caterpillars! lol

[colditz]

They are obviously giant spiders, that will feast on your toes when they hatch

[Nbg]

Pop one.

Then you'll know!

[Feistybird]

Colditz - you are the spawn of the devil.


'Pop on' - vomit emoticon!!!

[Nbg]

Go on.
I dare you.

In fact double dare you...

You know you want to, just one.

[Feistybird]

Nbg, stop it - I'm gonna barf

[Nbg]

Look, just pop the bloody thing!

Stick some blu tack on the end of your sweeping brush handle, stick a pin in the middle of it and go popping.


Pmsl!

[Feistybird]

what if it exudes pea-green pus?

or god forbid if 8 hairy legs unfurled....

[jmum6]

They might, in fact, not be of this world.....

[Nbg]

Your a parent arent you?
Surely you can cope with green pus!

If hairy legs come out then run!!!

Do it, I want to know what it is

[jmum6]

Could be alien spiders - bigger, hairier and blacker than ours!

[Nbg]

Might they be some form of fly?

[Feistybird]

dp will be home in an hour. If he wants to, he can pop one....yuck, there is no way I am doing that.

jmum, it does have an other-world look about it. Maybe it's on a reccy from the mother ship and making it's way to my house...

[Nbg]

I reckon they are spiders actually.

//[[shudder]]

[Feistybird]

Call me paranoid, but I sense some people are having a bit of fun with my neoroses here...

[Feistybird]

NbG you will never get to heaven

[Nbg]

Hahahahahahahaha

Heaven's for wusses anyway!

You should fit in nicely

[jmum6]

You're right they're just scouts before the main invasion!

Giant ones!