Pest or ????

[socalgardengal]

I was pulling some weeds and saw this. It's everywhere. Help
Thank you

[AlittleSalt]

I showed your pic to my wife and we think those are eggs of some insect. Have you noticed if they move or are basically glued in place?
https://www.google.com/search?q=eggs...D8%3B500%3B290

[socalgardengal]

They are hard, like a shell.

[socalgardengal]

Another photo angle

[AlittleSalt]

What I've noticed is that bugs generally lay eggs on the underside of leaves. I personally, would scrape them off into a bowl or something and dispose of them. However getting advice from someone who knows about these things a lot more than I do would be the best option. Squash bugs and stink bugs are two we had problems with last year and many leaves looked a lot like it does in your picture. I'm curious as to what they are too.

[socalgardengal]

I could send a pic to my local master gardeners and ask them. I did see quite a few ladybug larva roaming around. I'll look that up also.
Thanks so much for helping

[Starlight]

Are they brownish in color and feel a little fuzzy at all?

[socalgardengal]

Yes....

[socalgardengal]

Sent pics to master gardeners via email. Should hear from them soon. I will update when I hear back from them. I looked up pics of ladybug eggs, looks nothing like them. Most egg pics I looked at seem to be clusters and these are single but everywhere. Have my fingers crossed that it's something good If not, I have alot of work to do. Might just move my plants to my parents house.

[KarenO]

Hmm not eggs I don't think.
What kind of Leaves are those? Looks like hollyhock rust or another kind of rust which is a fungal disease. Google images hollyhock rust or rust on leaves and see what you think as far as if it's a match.
KarenO

[Starlight]

It looks like gall/midge eggs to me. If you look on the back of most of the Oak trees here, you will find the leaves covered with them. Some gall/midges are harmful, but there are several that are very beneficial and eat spider mites.

I have plants all under my trees and they get covered naturally in the fall and winter with these leaves and I have never had a problem with my plants being infected or chewed up by them.

Yes, they look ugly, but most are not harmful.

I'd be looking around and getting some white index cards and checking your plants for spider mites. Usually the midges won't lay like that unless they are around somewhere.

[Starlight]

Forgot to add that if you see those spots changing colors and going to a yellow or orange than I would agree with Karen that you might have some sort of rust, but usually rust spores are soft.

[socalgardengal]

It's on my weed forest that I let go this winter. I think the weed is called Velvet leaf. I saw the birds and bees were all over the oxalis flowers growing everywhere, so I decided to let the weeds grow for the last 8 weeks or so. Don't think I'll be doing that again. I will look up the rust and midge eggs. Thanks

[socalgardengal]

Ok it's not midge eggs. Looks nothing like it. BUT it does look alot like rust DANG!!! Glad I disrobed and washed up with bleach before walking into the house. Thank you for the help. I will post what the Master Gardeners say also when I receive an answer back.

[Starlight]

If you really want to be sure of what you have. Take a section of leaf and put in baggy and take to your local extension office and they will send over to the pathology labs for you. or if you have a major university near by, ask them.

You might even go online to your nearest university and get the email addy of one of the plant pathology folks and send them the pic.