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BlindBear0
Oh wow wth. Following post
dmontease
Kinda looks like a pin mold?
TXsweetmesquite
The clear fluid is likely honeydew– plant sugars excreted by a sapsucking insect. The white things tucked into the nodes are insects, but I can’t quite tell what they are from these pictures. If you’re somewhere with a warm climate, I’m tempted to suggest it’s an *Aleurodicus* larvae of some kind? Coconut whitefly larvae have those long, spiraled waxy extrusions, but they usually occur in larger groups.
Majestic_Vehicle_793
Mealybugs
Sufficient_Turn_9209
You’re not going to like it. It’s some type of scale insect, and the threads are anal tubes used to secrete the honeydew the produce by sucking the plant sap.
Does kinda look like signs of lacewings? Just they’re not straight down because they’re not hanging from leaves?
nicoleauroux
This is not lacewings or anal tubes.
It looks more likely that these are plant fibers from when older leaves were torn off. The distribution of damage on the foliage, and the evidence at the top of photo number two tells me it has spider mites and the plant is deteriorating rapidly. The honeydew, or perhaps guttation is causing those droplets to move along the shredded plant fibers.
MaeLeeCome
If you or someone in your house have white hair it’s absolutely just stray human hair somehow collecting in the plant. Someone is sweeping on a ledge above there or shaking out a rug over the plant?
shitsparrow
I had the exact same weird sticky hairs on my bamboo, and it was very hard to keep off any new growth. I eventually gave up and let it die.
I thought they were mealy bugs or wooly aphids at the time
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Oh wow wth. Following post
Kinda looks like a pin mold?
The clear fluid is likely honeydew– plant sugars excreted by a sapsucking insect. The white things tucked into the nodes are insects, but I can’t quite tell what they are from these pictures. If you’re somewhere with a warm climate, I’m tempted to suggest it’s an *Aleurodicus* larvae of some kind? Coconut whitefly larvae have those long, spiraled waxy extrusions, but they usually occur in larger groups.
Mealybugs
You’re not going to like it. It’s some type of scale insect, and the threads are anal tubes used to secrete the honeydew the produce by sucking the plant sap.
http://www.redhousegarden.com/2012/08/my-bug-babies.html?m=1
Does kinda look like signs of lacewings? Just they’re not straight down because they’re not hanging from leaves?
This is not lacewings or anal tubes.
It looks more likely that these are plant fibers from when older leaves were torn off. The distribution of damage on the foliage, and the evidence at the top of photo number two tells me it has spider mites and the plant is deteriorating rapidly. The honeydew, or perhaps guttation is causing those droplets to move along the shredded plant fibers.
If you or someone in your house have white hair it’s absolutely just stray human hair somehow collecting in the plant. Someone is sweeping on a ledge above there or shaking out a rug over the plant?
I had the exact same weird sticky hairs on my bamboo, and it was very hard to keep off any new growth. I eventually gave up and let it die.
I thought they were mealy bugs or wooly aphids at the time