[rcf100]

I'm just about to pull out one of my sunflowers as it's stem has rotted, but then I saw these little eggs - are they ladybird eggs?  If so I'll remove the leaf and pop in with my peppers

[surbie100]

Hi,

Ladybird eggs are tiny, cylindrical and yellow or orange.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lC9-spPaY40

I don't know what yours are, but they aren't ladybirds...

Look forward to seeing if anyone else knows what they are and if they should be squished!

Surbie

[Amilo]

Difficult to tell from your photo, they look a bit round.

Have a look at this site to see some better images.

Link edited as it had "broken" the page.

[rcf100]

I this photo any better?

[rcf100]

Could it be these - it talks about the US, don't know if it's a UK thing

http://blog.ecosmart.com/index.php/2009/05/02/cabbage-worms/

[savbo]

Large white and small white butterfly eggs are yellow, green-veined whites are white but laid singly... could be a moth?

sav

[potatogrower]

if you don't want to destroy them then best you can do is beak the leaf off and put it in a corner of the garden somwhere or in the scrubs in your local park or woodlands and leave them there. at least that way they won't destroy your plants if they turn out to be catapillars

[lacaya]

They look a bit like slug eggs...

[Yorkie]

Didn't think slugs laid eggs on leaves, but in the soil?

[rcf100]

I think I'll take the leaf to nursery and bin the dead sunflower. Won't be slugs as the sunflower was 2 ft tall until the last couple of days with no sign of leaf damage so fairly certain its a flying beasty. Since the sunflower is in among the veg patch then don't want to take a chance.

They have a caterpillar and ladybird larvae habitat so may like to hatch these for me and see if we can't work out what they are