Which pest are they from?

Which eggs can be found in the potting soil?

In principle, all egg-laying insects can brood in the Potting soil take off. Most often, however, it is fungus gnats or snails. As soon as an infestation is detected, appropriate action should be taken to avoid plant damage.
Sciarid fly larvae feed on the roots of the cultivated plants. These can no longer nourish themselves properly and wither away.
When snails hatch, which is more the case with garden and balcony plants, it is close by standing plants are mostly lost, because snails are among the most voracious garden pests at all.

Successful measures against snail and sciarid eggs

Snail eggs look like white or yellowish love pearls that lie close together in small piles. They can easily be mistaken for the fertilizer added to the potting soil (white or yellow hard balls). Therefore you have to look carefully and feel. Snail eggs are soft and sensitive to pressure. They should be collected with a jar and disposed of in the general waste bin.

Snail eggs have no place on the compost as they can develop unhindered here.
If you are not sure whether all the eggs have been removed, you can repot your plant using potting soil that has been sterilized beforehand became . By heating to 100 degrees all pest eggs have been destroyed.

Fighting fungus gnats

The eggs develop best in moist potting soil that is rich in husm. Once the larvae hatch, they begin to eat the roots of the plants. After a while, the plant will look poor and the pest will notice. The only thing left to do now is to intervene quickly with effective means:

• Repot the plant immediately, removing all soil, it is best to shower off the roots
• Wash pots of infested plants with hot water
• If the infestation is low, matches that are stuck upside down in the ground help, sciarid gnats do not like sulfur
• catch adult fungus gnats with carnivorous plants or
• Set up yellow boards on which the animals can hang
• Use of nematodes or Predatory mites, the beneficial insects eat the larvae and disappear by themselves when there is no more food