Recent content by Benhamish

Hello, I looked at these dots at 100X magnification. They appear to be some type of mite or armored scale. I am attaching pictures. This is a picture of a leaf, we noticed little black dots on the upperside of leaves and trails, This is 100X of the dot on the leaf, and this is 100x the dot on...

I will try flushing some with water. I looked at some scale pictures and the dots seem similar to very small scale. I am also going to try and look at some through a microscope. They are mostly confined to the topside of the petiole, the leaves have their stomata on the underside, is this true...

Hi, we have a number of plants growing outdoors (different strains). Recently some of them have begun developing these dots on their petioles and moving into the leaf. I have attached some pictures. I haven't seen something like this before. We do not know if it is natural, a fungus, or a virus...