Help - No idea

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Hello,

I need your help!!

I'm a very novice gardener who can kill most plants without trying.

My Lavender plant has died and flopped open, in the middle on one of the branches there are little white and yellow balls in a cluster! I've tried to Google what they could be but I'm having no luck.
Does anyone have any ideas??

TIA

Slug or snail eggs

Thank you, it does look like snail eggs

You’re welcome

Snail and slug eggs are transparent. Looks either like a cluster of slow release fertiliser pellets, or a plastic play bracelet that someone has dropped.

After years and years and years of hating slugs and snails, my usual first thought would have been to squish them all.

But I have had an epiphany and have now decided to tolerate them and leave them alone. Why on earth would I do that you ask.

Insect Armageddon, and reading Dave Goulsons book The Garden Jungle or Gardening to save the Planet.

We keep hearing about the decline in birds, bees, butterfly, hedgehog numbers et al. Part(most?) of this decline is due to human interference in the food chain.

By getting rid of anything in the garden we don’t like eg ants, aphids, slugs, snails etc, etc, we are denying something else their food source. Ok we may not like that one either, but the higher up the food chain you go, you eventually meet the apex predator. These are the birds, hedgehogs etc.

If you are new to gardening I so recommend the book above. Gardening used to be all about pesticides and chemical fertilisers - we are moving/have moved away from that. The next step will be leaving nature and slugs and snails alone to do their thing.

If you adopt this thinking, you will find your ideas are ahead of others, and when they catch up you can smugly say “Oh I was doing this years ago”.

Thanks for your change of heart and for posting this.

@ZeldaWillTellYourFortune Are you a fellow gardening convert, or perhaps a biologist writing a research paper on how slug mucus will save the planet?

Thankyou for your support, not many people seem to be a FOTSAS (friends of the slugs and snails).

This (a half dissolved fertiliser pellet) was my guess from the photo too. The colours in particular.

Are they hard when you press them (rather you than me!!). If they are squishy and moist then the others are probably right.

Thanks for all the ideas. I've had a look and they aren't transparent and doesn't look like a toy. I'm going to dig up the dead lavender on Sunday so will report back.