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Spider or ant? I don't know what it is

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Posted 4 years 10 months ago #50573
I have had what looks like a pest infestation on my tree. The only way I could solve it, was by taking a photo with my phone, and enlarging the picture. Can someone please help me, by telling me what it is I'm dealing with???
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Posted 4 years 10 months ago #50574
Hey Alimoo,
Nor spider, nor ant. : )
Sadly need some better photo, or at least few different angles to identify correctly.
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Posted 4 years 10 months ago #50576
Spiders and ants do not harm your tree.

Can't see the details, but I 'm going to guess these are aphids. They will damage the tree or plant
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Posted 4 years 10 months ago #50577
Six legs and green. Greenfly?
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Posted 4 years 10 months ago #50581

m5eaygeoff wrote: Six legs and green. Greenfly?


"Aphids are small sap-sucking insects and members of the superfamily Aphidoidea. Common names include greenfly and blackfly"

(wikipedia)
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Posted 4 years 10 months ago #50596
If you click on the attachment, it will show the bug Felidae. Thanks for replying
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Posted 4 years 10 months ago #50648

Alimoo wrote: If you click on the attachment, it will show the bug Felidae. Thanks for replying

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I saw it, that’s why I asked for more images : )
Geoff and Auk are probably right.
I cannot give a sure conclusion from your only photo, but the body morphology could be aphid-like.

Where aphids, there ants.Those bstrds keep them like cows... If I remember right, we have a topic somewhere where you can see some ants during milking aphids while they living on my tree.
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Posted 4 years 10 months ago #50677
I put another photo up of a dead one. They are very hard to see, like a piece of dust
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Posted 4 years 10 months ago #50678
Aphid. But I already said that.
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