While treating my bouganvillia for loop worms, I noticed a branch with uniformed scales. I can't seem to identifiy them. Any help?
Thank you in advance.
Joel
Mealy bug scales, looks like. They like the sap of the bougainvillea, I think. You might try scraping them off gently onto something that you can get rid of and then I believe there is a horticultural oil that you can rub on the branch to sort of seal it, seal those places that they've gouged into the bark. I'll have to look up the kind of oil, though, not sure about it.
This looks nothing like the scale I'm accustomed to seeing on Ribes and Rosa plants, but if it is scale, I've had good luck eradicating scale with Volck Oil. In a pinch, I've also used Pam cooking spray with equally successful results.
It looked like that when it got on my Euonymus - (bittersweet might be a common name for it). The truth is I used Vaseline petroleum jelly to get rid of it. Never thought of Pam. Thanks @Zuzu.
Edited because the common name for my Euonymus was winterberry, not bittersweet.
The diet of tettigoniids includes leaves, flowers, bark, and seeds, but many species are exclusively predatory, feeding on other insects, snails or even small vertebrates such as snakes and lizards.
This particular katydid could be the Angularwinged katydid but I can't be certain. A description (with a link to a photo of the eggs) does fit well, but I don't know if there are others which are similar ..
The sort of scale you are probably thinking of Sharon is likely to be the soft bodied ones, they attach their undersides to a leaf or stem like a vacuum and are either flat or helmet shaped. These remind me of pumpkin seeds.