What has laid a LOT of eggs in my lawn?

[Scrapeagle]

I'm not going to Burn them with fire as I lime biodiversity, but I'm interested - what bug would lay lots of tiny cream eggs on recently cut grass? They're messy and stuck to grass/ buttercup, about the same amount as a ping pong ball in total.

Pics below if I make it work, didn't want to traumatise anyone.

I'm in Edinburgh, weather is warm and grey, grass was cut 2 days ago, bordering a nature reserve.

I have no idea, but - ugh!

Are you sure it's eggs and not dog vomit slime mold?

Looks like Muciturbo crustacea - a slime mould.

Leave it be and see how it changes.

Def dogs vomit slime mould. Lots of slime moulds look a bit like eggs.

Slime Moulds / RHS Gardening

Either slime mould or fly eggs. Bleugh.

Maybe a neighbour made some scrambled eggs this morning and then decided that perhaps they should heed the doctors advice about reducing the amount of cholesterol they were eating and so threw it away over the fence?

It's the most likely answer to me.

Looks like slime mold

Correction- Slime Mould!

google lens says dog sick slime mold

interesting - I have never heard of this

Thank you Mumsnet! I googled and just got lots of lawncare companies telling me about common pests.

A slime mould - weird. Not actual dog vomit as no dogs have been in the garden.

I shall watch to see what happens next with interest.

[[https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/feb/18/slime-mould-rail-road-transport-routes

slime moulds in dark matter research

I shall watch to see what happens next with interest. Probably, once it’s released its spores, it will simply disintegrate and disappear

Slime moulds are weird. They can move about.

Yep. As in my two links above

I've never heard of slime mould, let alone one named after dog puke, haha! How gross.