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Two red dots per leaf

JoeXJoeX Posts: 1,783
in Problem solving
Are these bugs? Can’t seem to scrape them off this spiraea japonica.

There are two red dots at the base of every leaf.


cheers
tp

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  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Part of the plants.
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • JoeXJoeX Posts: 1,783
    Lyn said:
    Part of the plants.
    Phew

    cheers

     :) 
  • JoeXJoeX Posts: 1,783
    Perhaps, but my ants were doing something horrible to the top leaf on this sproutling, placing lots of black dots on the underside it had started curling and looking moldy.
  • NollieNollie Posts: 7,529
    Ant poo? Can ants poo upside down?
    Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    The black dots would be aphids for them to harvest their sugary secretions.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
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