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quiver
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tree barnicles???
#5744431 - 06/12/06 11:42 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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i went out and checked my garden and noticed these wierd barnicle things infesting our fig tree when i picked some off they crushed up and left a wet red coloured stain on my fingers


 i think these might be eggs or something,does anyone know what they are?
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Re: tree barnicles??? [Re: quiver]
#5744886 - 06/13/06 04:34 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Edited by pac_man (06/17/06 09:42 AM)
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Magash
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Re: tree barnicles??? [Re: quiver]
#5745967 - 06/13/06 02:25 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Re: tree barnicles??? [Re: Magash]
#5745984 - 06/13/06 02:30 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Edited by pac_man (06/17/06 09:44 AM)
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Magash
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Re: tree barnicles??? [Re: pac_man]
#5746106 - 06/13/06 03:10 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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You know Pac I thought the same thing. What made me look up scale is how it looked like little islands. I did find some lichens that look almost like it but it was all connected. I came back like 4 times to look over his pics before I switched to scale.
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durban_poison
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Re: tree barnicles??? [Re: pac_man]
#5746485 - 06/13/06 05:24 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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your right lichen it just has been exposed to too much sun so it died. no scale. did you know all lichen is edible but most undigestiable.
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durban_poison
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Re: tree barnicles??? [Re: Magash]
#5746493 - 06/13/06 05:27 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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scale doesnt get that large. unless that photo was a macro shot. there are many different spieces of lichen.
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Prisoner#1
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scale can get to 1/2 inch, I'm inclined to believe it's a scale as opposed to a lichen, that certainly doesnt look like any lichen I've ever seen
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durban_poison
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Re: tree barnicles??? [Re: Prisoner#1]
#5752166 - 06/15/06 01:45 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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1/2 inch scale would be magnolia scale. and it doesnt resemble magnolia scale. but after looking at it closer it could very well be scale guess that what i get for not looking at the pic full size. if its scale its definetly armored. pluck them off they are definetly immobile at that point. i must have also had a little buzz when i posted because i dont remember the red when squished part. the scale i have seen dont bleed red though. if the fig tree is that important to you hit it with some insecticides so it doesnt get worse. spraying with a alchol solution should kill them but dont over do it.
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Re: tree barnicles??? [Re: Prisoner#1]
#5752192 - 06/15/06 01:59 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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You know I still believe that these are leaches, but how easy it is to change your mind? Like changing a Christian to Buddhism.
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Some fungi "climb" up trees and vines (while not gaining nutrition from them) in order to release their spores from as high a perch as possible.
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durban_poison
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Re: tree barnicles??? [Re: Prisoner#1]
#5752212 - 06/15/06 02:14 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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damn i found a picture of lichen that looks just like that but it wont let me upload. it was theloma mammosum but that is a rock lichen.
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mycogirl
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Re: tree barnicles??? [Re: quiver]
#5754000 - 06/15/06 03:36 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale_insect
There is a picture of one type of scale on this page that looks very similar to the pictures you posted.
edit: the structures seem to be similar, especially the division, one dot in the center, with a series of concentrical dots.
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Re: tree barnicles??? [Re: quiver]
#5755338 - 06/15/06 09:24 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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If they leave a wet red color stain, it's probably insect blood. Make sure they don't kill your fig tree, I'd scrape them off, and hose the branch off.
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mycogirl
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Actually insects usually have colorless, yellow, or green blood. They lack hemoglobin that mammals have giving our blood a red color. Red 'bleeding' is observed when killing mosquitoes and leeches because they are full of our blood.
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quiver
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Re: tree barnicles??? [Re: quiver]
#5763225 - 06/18/06 03:53 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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ok thanks everyone,i just got back from up north and forgot about this post i'll use some insecticide on it after i scrape em all off and see what happens thanks again guys
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Re: tree barnicles??? [Re: quiver]
#5763543 - 06/18/06 07:54 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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It shouldn't be much of a prob scale is pretty easy to get rid of.
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