what are these?

Things I find growing on the leaf of I. indica blue dawn. They don't appear to be a bother, but nonethess, a curiosity. I don't see any legs in there. Frank

keep trying. These things a clustered at the beginning of the midrib. Frank

Another shot.

another

Leaf hair on the bottom of the leaf.

A pink one.

They don't seem to have any legs, or movement, or any damage caused by them.

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Frank - interesting pictures...are the objects attached in the sense that if you try to remove them by a spray stream or a tweezers that they are partially imbedded or otherwise 'attached' by silk (e.g.,eggs) or something else...is it possible residue from a growing medium or precipitated amorphous minerals from a feeding spray of some type...

Just some thoughts...

TTY,...

Ron

Are they attached in any way?
These plants were inocculated with the predatory mite that kills spider mites. The predatory mites came in some kind of medium in a shaker because they were too small to see. These things could either be the medium or eggs of the predatory mite, which is a beneficial insect.

This message was edited Apr 10, 2007 9:17 AM

Frank,
get a cotton swab and dip it into alcohol, wipe those things with it, if they turn a reddish color when the alcohol touches them, they could be mealies.. my fat bodies get those all the time (my fat bodies are my desert rose plants and caudiforms) NOT me..or my arms..lol

I cant detect any web, so I think they must be some kind of mealy bug. I threw the leaf in the waste basket, and later spit a blob of snoose on their spot. Today I dug the leaf out and some were on the other side. That sounds like mealies to me.

We have maple trees in the yard, and one year I was pruning some of th limbs off that were hanging down over the sidewalk. The bottoms of those limbs had gigantic scales, maybe half inch on the bottoms only. They were mahogany in color. When I scraped them open, geez, it was crammed with what looked like mealies. About the first of october or so, at report card time, (i used to catch their gnats in my first report card on the way home from school), they turn into gnats and last 3 to 4 days. Inside their scale was a white mess like spilled flower, webby, with well difined mealies slowly crawling around in the mess. Frank

What is the latin name of these so I can look them up in Bugfiles?

Maconellicoccus hirsutus,

phicks,
Bless you on that cough..

LOL!!!

Maybe the material is some stray perlite?