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What are these parasites?

PashkaTLT

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Hello guys,

Please help identify these. All pictures taken from one frond of my Pygmy Date Palm, currently residing in my palm room indoors.

Thank you.

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Planted palms: Sabal minor, W. Robusta (Mexican Fan Palm, my favourite!), Windmill, Pindo, Needle, European Fan, Sago palm, Saw Palmetto, Pygmy Date palm

Inside during winter: Majesty, Cat palm, Chinese fan palm, Mexican Fan palm

Tom in Tucson Veteran

Tom in Tucson

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Looks like mealy bugs. I would start using a Malathion treatment that the label recommends.

Hi 71°, Lo 45°

Casas Adobes - NW of Tucson since July 2014

formerly in the San Carlos region of San Diego

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A few more photos:

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Planted palms: Sabal minor, W. Robusta (Mexican Fan Palm, my favourite!), Windmill, Pindo, Needle, European Fan, Sago palm, Saw Palmetto, Pygmy Date palm

Inside during winter: Majesty, Cat palm, Chinese fan palm, Mexican Fan palm

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And with a microscope:

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Planted palms: Sabal minor, W. Robusta (Mexican Fan Palm, my favourite!), Windmill, Pindo, Needle, European Fan, Sago palm, Saw Palmetto, Pygmy Date palm

Inside during winter: Majesty, Cat palm, Chinese fan palm, Mexican Fan palm

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10 minutes ago, PashkaTLT said:

A few more photos:

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As Tom mentioned, i see Mealy Bugs ...and these, which are a type of Scale insect ( Possibly False Oleander Scale, Pseudaulacaspis cockerelli ) ..Treating them is the same as you would treat Mealy Bugs.

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3 minutes ago, PashkaTLT said:

And with a microscope:

 

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This is a " crawler " AKA:  Juvenile stage of the adult " shelled " insect above it.

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Silas I believe I have one Palm with this same pest, can I use Coffee to kill them like Asian Scale?

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9 hours ago, Dwarf Fan said:

Silas I believe I have one Palm with this same pest, can I use Coffee to kill them like Asian Scale?

Since these are similar to Asian Cycad Scale, definitely doesn't hurt to try.. You might research using 70% rubbing alcohol ( dabbing effected leaves w either cue tip swabs or Cotton balls ) to kill any crawlers crawling around on the leaves / adults already hanging out there.. That combined w/ using the Coffee grounds should break the life cycle.

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17 hours ago, Silas_Sancona said:

As Tom mentioned, i see Mealy Bugs ...and these, which are a type of Scale insect ( Possibly False Oleander Scale, Pseudaulacaspis cockerelli ) ..Treating them is the same as you would treat Mealy Bugs.

You're absolutely correct! These pictures are identical to mine:

https://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/orn/scales/false_oleander_scale.htm

And those сlusters of white things are not mealy bugs, but the same false scales, just in a different stage. Some pictures from the Internet:

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Planted palms: Sabal minor, W. Robusta (Mexican Fan Palm, my favourite!), Windmill, Pindo, Needle, European Fan, Sago palm, Saw Palmetto, Pygmy Date palm

Inside during winter: Majesty, Cat palm, Chinese fan palm, Mexican Fan palm

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