HMMM?.. bumps, ants ... Where is Sherlock ?

[orangeman]

C'MON!!!!!!!!!!!!!

show some LOVE

Ewww, that looks so fuckin nasty xD.

[4x5]

second pic looks like mold to me, the first with the bugs is scary and plain gross.....

[u.g.u]

looks like some kinda plant STD maybe HPV just kidding I have never seen anything like that in or outdoor

[latewood]

I only know from your dvd's...Interesting...It is something that got me curious, when I 1st saw it this AM...peace

[Garden Knowm]

KANKERS...
picking them off is very very dangerous.. cause that is how the problem can spread.. the juice. the juice.. is very contagious..

[bob bobbinson]

I was thinking it was some sort of slug also. Because some parts do not look to be fully connected to the plant. they look like there fighteing over which slug can suck life from the plant. And the ants are eating them, or cleaning them. Then it would be a symbiotic relationship.

I dont see any dead slug looking things. So thats my guess.

Do those slugs or bubbles of ooze move? can u pick at least one off and look at the underside of it?

[stinkyattic]

Some species of ants 'farm' aphids just the way people farm honeybees.

The aphid takes plant juices and process them into a purer, more usable form of sugar.

The ants then consume that sugar.

In exchange, the ants fiercely guard the aphids against other insect predators.

It's a classic case of symbiosis.

I have neve seen aphids that look like that though. I think it's a scalebug of some sort.

[stinkyattic]

Google 'Fletcher scale'. It's a pest of ornamental evergreens. Looks like your little guys.

[Garden Knowm]

canker ...

GOOGLE that...

: )

iloveyou

[Sabrinaleena]

Whoa, those are some freaky looking.... things. Definitely I'm going with some larval form of slug like another poster suggested. They have those same mottled/striped markings of younger slugs. And the way the outer edges of their bodies curl and wave up off of the stem seems indicative of some kind of slug. The ants are having a good old time though

I would definitely get rid of those slug thingies asap. But maybe try and be careful that when you wash them off, you dont run them off into the surrounding bed of soil. (Assuming you're growing in the ground or in soil).

Good luck!