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

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Feistybird · 31/03/2006 11:27

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....

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starlover · 31/03/2006 11:29

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

well.. obviously caterpillars when they hatch

starlover · 31/03/2006 11:30

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

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Feistybird · 31/03/2006 11:30

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

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starlover · 31/03/2006 11:30

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

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Feistybird · 31/03/2006 11:32

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.

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NomDePlume · 31/03/2006 11:32

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

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Feistybird · 31/03/2006 11:34

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.

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starlover · 31/03/2006 11:36

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

colditz · 31/03/2006 11:55

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

Nbg · 31/03/2006 11:57

Pop one.

Then you'll know!

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Feistybird · 31/03/2006 11:59

Colditz - you are the spawn of the devil.

'Pop on' - vomit emoticon!!!

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Nbg · 31/03/2006 12:01

Go on.
I dare you.

In fact double dare you...

You know you want to, just one.

Grin
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Feistybird · 31/03/2006 12:22

Nbg, stop it - I'm gonna barf

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Nbg · 31/03/2006 12:25

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!
Grin

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Feistybird · 31/03/2006 12:27

what if it exudes pea-green pus?

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

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jmum6 · 31/03/2006 12:29

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

Nbg · 31/03/2006 12:29

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 Grin

jmum6 · 31/03/2006 12:29

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

Nbg · 31/03/2006 12:30

Might they be some form of fly?

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Feistybird · 31/03/2006 12:32

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...

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Nbg · 31/03/2006 12:33

I reckon they are spiders actually.

[[shudder]]

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Feistybird · 31/03/2006 12:33

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

Grin
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Feistybird · 31/03/2006 12:34

NbG you will never get to heaven

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Nbg · 31/03/2006 12:36

Hahahahahahahaha

Heaven's for wusses anyway!

You should fit in nicely

Grin
jmum6 · 31/03/2006 12:47

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

Giant ones!