aseedisapromise and nil13 - Thank you both. Just minutes ago, I was reading about springtails in Buginfo.com and realized what you just said about it's tail/spring (furcula - I mistakenly called it fulcrum). You are right, it would not be extended as it only extends when it "springs". Based on it's behaviour of jumping when my moving fingers get near it and the similarities to some of the pics, absent any other suggestions, this may be it. Regarding my jades, the ones with the bugs are indoors. Soil is extremely fast draining, very little organic, and 50% perlite. I let it dry out completely and water when the leaves show the need. Right now, it's 16-21 day watering cycle. Also, all my jades (indoors and outdoors) are still actively growing, so I am unable to withhold water for too long. I do not know why they are still growing when it is this hot. I can understand the indoors since they are in temp-regulated A/C but my outside ones are doing great. In fact, I wanted to start a topic on that, maybe I have some extreme-heat-tolerant variety that keeps growing in the heat :-) Vegas is very hot this time of year. We started getting to 100 in end of May and today it is 110. But we actually had a few days of hi-humidity and big summer downpours last week. So as you said, it is possible they came from outside. One last thing, most of what I have read so far about springtails is that they are beneficial and pose no harm to plants, being decomposers and recyclers of organic matter. It is good to know. So, it would only be a nuisance issue (which it has not gotten to that point yet anyway). So most suggestions, including yours, it is best to dry them out even more so they move away. Thanks again.

Hi. I posted the same message with a photo on a different forum. I couldn't post a photo with this message because I didn't have the resizing software at the time. I suspect that they are butterfly eggs. I found one in my grapefruit mint yesterday. Didn't have my camera with me, or else I would have taken a photo it. Here is a link that might be useful: Insect eggs (57 k)

Hi. I posted the same message with a photo on a different forum. I couldn't post a photo with this message because I didn't have the resizing software at the time. I suspect that they are butterfly eggs. I found one in my grapefruit mint yesterday. Didn't have my camera with me, or else I would have taken a photo it. Here is a link that might be useful: Insect eggs

Nah, I won't throw in the towel because of a few pests - I won't let them bully me ;) I too have found it to be relaxing & a stress reliever, even if it may cause a stroke, lol! Plus I have lots of paper wasps/parasitic wasps, bumblebees, songbirds, etc, to take care of the pests. I do, however, need to find some native plants to attract more as well as plants to keep pests at bay. Being a beginner at roses, as well as having a certain mindset that they are difficult to maintain (as my mother always said but I'm overcoming), I've been babying them, need to let nature do its thing & sit back to enjoy my work thus far. I do thoroughly enjoy everything that comes with it: pruning, dead heading, making my own trellises, I even enjoy watering :) Thanks for the encouragement & input; that's enough to keep me moving forward! Nic P.S. I've checked for pests today & found nothing, but would've let them be if I did ;)