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Scale insects on our fruit trees? #791357

Asked May 17, 2022, 8:39 PM EDT

Hello, we have two apple trees and a plum tree showing the bumps and white insects (?) shown in the attached pictures. They are around 3 years old, we never got any fruit and they had that last year too. It seems like a whole bunch of trees along the sidewalk in the neighborhood have that too... Is that scale insects? Is that treatable? What will happen if we treat our trees but the neighborhood's trees are not treated? Is it just going to come back all the time? Thank you for your help!! Best, Roxane Alles

Fairfield County Ohio

Expert Response

I apologize for the delay in answering your question.
What you have is European lecanium scale.  Attached are two web sites with information.
https://bygl.osu.edu/node/943

https://extension.umd.edu/resource/european-fruit-lecanium-scale
Sheila J. Replied May 26, 2022, 4:17 PM EDT

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