Rakesh-- Sounds like it may not be scale insects. They normally detach fairly easily by scraping with the finger.
I'd suspect that some sort of boring insect is infesting the stems, or possibly some sort of canker disease. Do you know what kind of tree it is? Regards-- Ken. --- On Fri, 1/23/09, Rakesh Biswas <[email protected]> wrote: From: Rakesh Biswas <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [indiantreepix:7878] bark accumulation To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Date: Friday, January 23, 2009, 12:02 PM Thanks Ken, The ants seem to have disappeared these days since I last clicked this picture. It was very difficult to scrape off and started oozing a reddish exudate. rakesh On 1/23/09, Kenneth Greby <[email protected]> wrote: Rakesh-- Indeed there are many species of scale insects. If that plant has scale, it is not one with which I am familiar. Were the ants primarily visiting these lumps. or were they perhaps foraging on something else in the plant? Did you try scraping any of the lumps to see if they would detach? Regards-- Ken. --- On Fri, 1/23/09, Rakesh Biswas <[email protected]> wrote: From: Rakesh Biswas <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [indiantreepix:7878] bark accumulation To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Date: Friday, January 23, 2009, 11:53 AM Thanks Ken. Interestingly a search on scale insects led me to this site from Florida http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/CH195 although none of their pics matched mine but I guess there are a lot of varieties. rakesh http://peoplesgroup.academia.edu/RakeshBiswas On 1/23/09, Kenneth Greby <[email protected]> wrote: Possibly a scale insect infestation, judging by the number of ants present. They tend to move insects like scale (and aphids, thrips, whitefly, etc) around plants to maximize their production of honeydew, upon which they eat. Could also be sap rising as the result of a bark-boring insect as well, though ants seldom collect the gum exudate of most plants. Regards-- Ken Greby Palmetto Bay, Florida USA --- On Thu, 1/22/09, Rakesh Biswas <[email protected]> wrote: From: Rakesh Biswas <[email protected]> Subject: [indiantreepix:7878] bark accumulation To: [email protected] Date: Thursday, January 22, 2009, 12:23 PM I wonder if any one could help me with identifying this interesting accumulation on the bark of this tree. rakesh Bhopal --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "indiantreepix" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
