Help identifying this bug + the rows underneath the leaves

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ncaptiva Fort Myers, FL Nov 11, 2018

This is in southwest Florida... We're curious as to what these bugs are, and whether they're responsible for these fern spore looking rows underneath the leaves, or if they're just actual fern spores (lol). Thank you!

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Flapdoodle Minot, ND Nov 11, 2018

The insect at lower left is a larva of a lady beetle; the other images are not clear enough for a positive identification, It is possible that two at the center and center/right might be soft scale insects (see https://mrec.ifas.ufl.edu/lso/images/scales/ffa2-18.jpg for an example), but the one at upper right appears to be something different. The spore-like objects are structures called sporangia, these are enclosures in which spores are formed.

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