It looks like scale insects, but I have not seem them in this color on juniper before..

I do not want to go into the area of Rust, for which the colour would be right.

I am going for some species of scale/

I took them off easily with my fingernails, they look like sesame seeds.

Boneshigh wrote: I took them off easily with my fingernails, they look like sesame seeds.

Eggs maybe? Bagworm?

scale