My Honeysuckle Vine Is Developing A Strange White Fluffy Coating

[jim evans]

Do you know what this stuff is and what the bugs are and if I need to do something about it?

[David Hill]

Woolly aphids

[jim evans]

stuff, but the only good picture I've found so far is of a woolly alder aphid and this critter definitely is not one of these

's really too bad I can't get a larger shot of the little critter, but mine is fairly flat, not round bodied (cocklebur shaped) like the link above, and it doesn't have this long wiry hairlike stuff.

jim

[Pam - gardengal]

Looks like cottony scale, although I've not known honeysuckle to be particularly troubled by this type of critter. Insecticidal soap or ultrafine horticultural oil are the recommended treatments.

pam - gardengal