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

[The Taquito Bandito]

Neat!

[stinkyattic]

Some scale insects, specifically the 'soft' scales, do not have the protective shell associated with scalebugs.

The soft bodies resemble a slug.

Canker is the term for a plant's response to a specific canker-causing bacterial infection. It isn't an insect.

Did you know that slugs are hemaphroditic? Some species can even self- fertilize, while other species display a behavior that involves one slug biting off the penis of the other. The second slug then has no choice but to behave as a female since it can no longer deliver sperm.

Anyway I still have my money on soft scale.

[stinkyattic]

Oh yeah, if they were slugs they would be eating the leaves, not the stem.

[Garden Knowm]

CANKERS!!!!!!!!!!!

i said CANKERS!!!!!!

iloveyou

sabrina.. my dear.. what are you doing over in these parts?

iloveyou

[stinkyattic]

Canker is the term for a plant's response to a specific canker-causing bacterial infection. It isn't an insect.
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This is what you get when you Google plant canker.

http://plant-disease.ippc.orst.edu/d...m?RecordID=180
Gordronia cassandrae fungus.

And I still have my money on soft scale.

iloveyoutoo.