White marks covering plant

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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,147

  September 2019

  Scale insects ... info and advice here https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?pid=798
  
  Hope that helps 😊 

  
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• matthewduncan829 Posts: 8

  September 2019

  Ah, that's great. Thanks so much for your help

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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,147

  September 2019

  😊 

  
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• JennyJ Posts: 10,576

  September 2019

  Is it an indoor plant? I had whitefly on a houseplant once and they looked like that (although not so many).
  

  Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  

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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,147

  September 2019

  That’s not whitefly ... it’s scale insects. 100% certain 😊 

  
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• Borderline Posts: 4,700

  September 2019

  I agree with Dovefromabove, they are Euonymus Scale, and the plant looks like a Euonymus Japonicus, an outdoor shrub.

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• Silver surfer Posts: 4,719

  September 2019

  Dove....
  It should be refereed to as "Euonymus scale"
   It is very specialised ..it is a small sap-sucking insect that infests the stems and foliage of Euonymus.
  
  https://www.google.com/search?q=euonymus+scale&client=firefox-b-d&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwitrLji-dLkAhUQSxUIHa0SC_YQ_AUIESgB&biw=1920&bih=944
  
  
  It is nothing like the Scale insect that can affect other plants.

  
  

  https://www.google.com/search?q=scale+insect&client=firefox-b-d&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwigwuvU-NLkAhWYEMAKHT-tDtgQ_AUIESgB&biw=1920&bih=944
  

  Perthshire. SCOTLAND .

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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,147

  September 2019

  @Silver surfer 😊 if you check the link in my first post .... 👍 

  
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• Silver surfer Posts: 4,719

  September 2019

  Dove ..I did.
  
  I am in no way doubting your correct answer..do not get me wrong.
  But you have twice call it scale when it is Euonymus scale.
  There is a world of difference...that was all.

  Perthshire. SCOTLAND .

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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,147

  September 2019

  @Silver surfer If you checked the link then you will have seen that I linked to Euonymus Scale ... the RHS describes it as one of the ‘many types of scale insects’ not that much of a ‘world of difference’ 😉 It does look very like Euonymus Scale but I hesitated to give a 100% definitive ID from that photo ... an ‘informed suggestion’ maybe. 😊

  
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