So, I was out in my backyard digging up some dandelions greens cause I wanna bring them in so Ginny(guinea pig)can have some during the winter. While I was digging I found this tiny round, white egg in the dirt, buried. I would have taken it in and put it in a terrarium but I don't have one so instead I just buried it again in the same place. Then I dug in another spot and found another. I buried that one too.

I was thinking they might be lizard eggs but they were a bit too small(about the size of a tooth maybe)and isn't it the wrong season? I also thought frog but maybe not. Then maybe spider eggs? That must have been one big mama spider though. Too bad I couldn't get pics of them.

Does anyone know what they might have been? Thanks for any input!

Sorry for my ignorance laura220, but could this be a turtle egg? Turtles do lay eggs right??? I would think that they would be bigger then you are trying to describe...
The size, you said about the size of a tooth...
You are in the northern hemisphere so you are getting into the early to mid-autumn season, could this be a snake egg of some sort. A little unusual for them to be around the yard in different places. I am not sure of the varieties that you have over there...
I guess I am not much help after all.
Who else has an idea???

Way too small to be a turtle egg.. Do snakes lay their eggs seperately? It's too cold now for any snakes, lizards or frogs to actually be moving about. Maybe it's just a really big bug egg. Well, thanks for the input anyway!

well theres one sure way to tell a bird egg from a reptile egg. Reptile eggs will have no hard shell. The shell, or outer membrane will be soft and moist.

As for a bug im not really sure. But just tell me if its hard or soft and i'll work from that.

I'm not sure. I didn't want to squeeze incase it popped and I killed the little growing fetus thingy. It was far too small to have been a bird egg plus both were buried.

I'm thinking it wasn't too hard maybe a little soft but nothing like a snake's egg.

laura220

Were you digging in your mothers flower bed or close by it?
Does she grow flower bulbs? Is the egg opaque or translucent? Will your fingernail pierce it easily?

Where do you live? (country, climate,. etc.)That could possibly help to identify it.

Ah, a mystery!

Sorry it's taken so long. I saw the your post befre but I had trouble signing on(my computer was trying to tell me I was hannah).

The first egg I found was smack in the middle of the lawn. Yes, I dug right on through the grass(don't ask ). The second was in a clearer spot but still not our flower bed. I think it was opaque and I'm sure I could have hurt it pretty easily.

I live in Finland so it's autumn now. Already pretty cold. In the afternoon's it's about 40 F'. At night, in the morning and in the evening it gets colder.

Nothing?