If you can sacrifice a seedling, find one with these egg things on them and take it to Westbrae Nursery on Gilman or maybe Berkeley Hort (I personally can't stand Berkeley Hort b/c of how they treat those of us who don't have buckets of money to spend, but they *do* know their stuff) for identification. Yabusaki Gardens on Dwight Way is also good.

Ask them what the things are and what they recommend to get rid of them.

Good luck!

Cynthia H.
El Cerrito, CA

Those are leaf miners.

Wipe off the eggs as much as you can and do it every night if possible. Kill any grey flies you see landing on your chard. If you miss an egg you will see winding tunnels in your chard leaf. This is the larva eating it's way between the outer layers of the leaf. Pluck it off and destroy it before it reaches the next stage of dropping into the soil where it develops into a fly, starting the cycle over again. If you control the first generation of these little devils as best you can, the second generation won't cause nearly as much damage.

The description of "tiny white eggs that are about 2mm long each and quite thin, all in rows of 4-8 eggs on the undersides of the leaves " does *not* fit what leafminer eggs are.

Go back to square one. Take some to a knowledgeable person.

The description of "tiny white eggs that are about 2mm long each and quite thin, all in rows of 4-8 eggs on the undersides of the leaves " does *not* fit what leafminer eggs are.

I'm trying to figure out what part of the description does not sound like leafminer eggs.

Did they looks like this? If so, they could be leaf miner eggs.

tj

Here is a link that might be useful: Egg Whites

For piotra01...

Sorry, I obviously was thinking about something else.

P.S.: 1st error I ever made.
:>)