Pest ID please

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Any information about this appreciated , just fund it today on my lemon about 5 of them, not sure what are they,
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Re: Pest ID please

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Not sure about the cute little starfish one - I have not seen that one before - but I can see scales along the midrib and possibly a leaf miner tunnel lower left. The colour of that leaf is very yellow. Should be a better green than that, even at this time of year. I'd say it needs plenty of feeding as well as possible treatment for the insect pests.
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a weird mealy bug?
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Some ladybird larvae look a bit like that http://curiousgardener.com/wp-content/u ... arvae1.jpg
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Yes shiibui i just bought it with reduced price :fc: I know it has scales and need feed as soon as possible but what confused me the star white one cuz I didn’t find it all over the internet,
terryb wrote:Some ladybird larvae look a bit like that http://curiousgardener.com/wp-content/u ... arvae1.jpg
Terryb thanks mate I think it is, I’ll see what i got to treat this one,
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Post by Jdceng »

Hi Joe

Leave it alone it as it is one of the good guys, check these out to familiarise the goodies you need to have around .

http://www.brisbaneinsects.com/brisbane_ladybirds/

https://earthbox.com/bug-chart
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Hi guys, i just found it and it turns out Not ladybird as terryb says it’s one of scale types they had too many shapes and sizes, see this picture for info,
Thanks for trying.
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Thanks for the update. Glad to have learned something!
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Likewise thanks for the update
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