r/GardeningAustralia • u/Special-Car170 • Nov 27 '24
Can anyone help ID these eggs found under a plant while weeding in NSW 🐜 ID This Bug
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u/poppacapnurass Nov 27 '24
Native reptile eggs.
As I understand it, you have to be very careful handling them as the babies inside can have their acces to oxygen restricted or cut off if you roll them around.
Best to leave the unknown be and gather more knowledge before moving them.
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u/nathbakkae Nov 27 '24
If you can't find a good place to re-hide where you found them where they're safe from the elements then you can just tuck them into a temperate dark cupboard that you check daily. Hatched one out in the cupboard the spare toilet rolls lived in once. Though put it in a jar with holes in it if you don't want to have to hunt them down when they hatch.
(My husband says I am no longer allowed to hatch out gecko eggs in my toilet roll cupboard because I did not use a jar).
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u/Ichabodtweet Nov 27 '24
Gecko potentially. I get those a lot at my place in North Qld.
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u/DianaF1080 Nov 27 '24
Geckoes always lay two eggs in a clutch, if it is an Asian house gecko they are often in a garage, cupboard, or under the house. Garden skinks lay more eggs than geckoes and they like to communal clutch (more than one female in one place), several garden skink eggs in a nest are often under grass clumps, garden edging, pavers and bricks in the garden.
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u/Needmoresnakes Nov 27 '24
I'd say garden skink or asian house gecko. Leaning towards gecko since they look pretty round, skink eggs are slightly more elliptical
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u/antisocialinfluince Nov 27 '24
From the native pigmy chickens. Very rare and endangered. Micro cattle could be breeding nearby
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u/cassowarius Nov 27 '24
Common garden skink eggs