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Oct 3, 2018 8:39 PM CST
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Found a few different insects on my magnolia tree this morning.
2 x spiders
1 x possibly a type of egg?
1 x small white insect (spotted about half a dozen of them all towards the end of the branches just below the new leaf growth)

Are any of these potentially bad for the tree? Most curious about the white insect and the possible egg.

THANKS!

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Oct 3, 2018 10:56 PM CST
Name: Celia
West Valley City, Utah (Zone 7a)
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1st two are spiders. I don't know what #1 is but #2 is a jumping spider, Phidippus sp.
#3 could be a whitefly. It's hard to tell.
The last one...I don't know.
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Oct 3, 2018 11:00 PM CST
Name: Tofi
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It looks like some kind of meally bugs or other scale insect nymph, they do positioned them self near leaves vein/ribs to get more plants sap. get rid of it...
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Oct 3, 2018 11:02 PM CST
Name: Celia
West Valley City, Utah (Zone 7a)
I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Garden Photography Irises Plant Identifier Hummingbirder Birds
Celebrating Gardening: 2015 Cat Lover Butterflies Enjoys or suffers cold winters
Where in the world are you located? That would help with ID's.
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Oct 3, 2018 11:18 PM CST
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Hello! sorry located in Melbourne Australia!
The tree is a magnolia teddy bear, evergreen variety.
I have done a bit of searching and believe that the white insect is a mealybug (bad news) and what i originally thought was an egg is in fact an insect known as a pink wax scale (also bad news).
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