What Bug??

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• BobTheGardener Posts: 11,385

  June 2021 edited June 2021

  Those are scale insects which have protected their eggs inside the waxy substance at the rear end.  I would scrape them all off now, if I were you.  Once hatched, they become a highly mobile form called 'runners' which will go off looking for new permanent homes on your tree.

  https://www.gardenforumhorticulture.co.uk/pestwatch/scale-insect.htm

  Edit: Cottony cushion scale by the looks of them:

  https://www.whatsthatbug.com/2014/02/17/cottony-cushiion-scale/
  

  
  

  A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  

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• widgetwilk ann Posts: 361

  June 2021

  Thank you so much for your expert advice will pass it on,
  

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• Fire Posts: 19,096

  June 2021

  yuk
  

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