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sunfish
10-01-2009, 06:35 PM
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=24200&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=24200&ppuser=2868)

Any idea what these green insects are?. Maybe aphid eggs?

Lagniappe
10-01-2009, 07:51 PM
Looks like butterfly eggs. The Gulf fritillary placed eggs all over my passies this year, and one was stripped clean. They're putting on new growth, and I got to see a lot of butterflies emerge, so it was worth not spraying.

sunfish
10-01-2009, 08:52 PM
I have butterflies and caterpillars . The eggs of the Gulf fritillary are orange and soft these are green and have a hard shell.

Lagniappe
10-01-2009, 09:03 PM
Your right about the eggs being orange and soft. Can you scrape these off? Could it be another butterfly? What Passiflora do you have? Are these Petiolar nectaries?

sunfish
10-01-2009, 09:13 PM
The one with the green whatever they are is frederick's. This is the only passion vine I have that is not a host to the Gulf fritillary. Could be another butterfly.Not the Petiolar nectaries.

sunfish
05-19-2014, 09:07 PM
Your right about the eggs being orange and soft. Can you scrape these off? Could it be another butterfly? What Passiflora do you have? Are these Petiolar nectaries?

They are Petiolar nectaries. :08: