Black Eggs on my plants

[Wicked Pepper]

I recently found some black eggs on one of my plants. They reminded me of lady bugs eggs only black and they hatched what looks like tiny lady bugs, but I believed all ladybugs started out as larvae. Any help?

 

[Hybrid Mode 01]

     Beetles hatch as larvae, so definitely not lady beetles. What do the eggs look like? Pics? Are they neatly organized oblong, barrel-shaped things? If so, they may be some king of bug - like a stinkbug. You should ID them. They may be a pest.

 

[geeme]

Ladybug eggs are typically whitish, maybe a tad yellow, and kind of football shaped. Here's a link to a decent site about ladybug life cycle: http://everything-ladybug.com/ladybug-life-cycle.html
 
And yes, pics would help.

 

[Burning Colon]

nute 'em!

 

[Helvete]

If they already look like lady bugs they could be any number of leaf beetle larvae, which are bad news.  Pics would help.  So would actual lady bugs

 

[jjropes]

I found black eggs on a pepper plant last week.  They were arranged just like lady bug eggs but were black.  I checked the next day and they were hatched.....with what looked exactly like lady bug larvae.  I wonder if the eggs looked black because of the color of the larvae inside them and so close to hatching.  I purchased 1500 ladybugs a couple of weeks back for the greenhouse aphid problem.  I took out all of my overwinters already and that plant was one of the OWs.

 

[XLNT]

Nuke Em With Neem-      
 
What you think are Eggs may actually be dead white flys.  
 
Check this link out-
 
http://www.ext.colostate.edu/pubs/insect/05587.html
 
Martin

 

[geeme]

There is a beetle that looks much like a ladybug but is not, and it is harmful to plants. One of the big differences is the "social" habit - about the only time you will find "swarms" of ladybugs is when the weather is cold and they huddle together. Otherwise, you might find a few ladybugs on a plant, but not masses of them. This other ladybug-mimic, however, is frequently found en masse on plants. Get rid of them.

 

[jojo]

There is a beetle that looks much like a ladybug but is not, and it is harmful to plants. One of the big differences is the "social" habit - about the only time you will find "swarms" of ladybugs is when the weather is cold and they huddle together. Otherwise, you might find a few ladybugs on a plant, but not masses of them. This other ladybug-mimic, however, is frequently found en masse on plants. Get rid of them.

What is this other beetle u speak of? I have these lady bug beetles that are red, but no spots... Are these just lady bugs with no spots? Or the lady bug mimic?

 

[jjropes]

Geeme,  are you talking about the Kudzu Bug?  We have a million of them down here this year.  Has anyone noticed any damage from them?

 

[Wicked Pepper]

After keeping an eye on the "mini lady bugs" for a couple of days i noticed their color changing to bronze and black. I decided it was best to remove them, so i relocated them- into the ground!