VERY small white furry insect with clear wings (wooly aphid)

by Lauren
(Saddle Brook, NJ)

VERY small white furry insect with clear wings and beady eyes flying around outside...almost looks like pollen

White "furry" beetle or spider (Nymph of Masked Hunter bug)

by Rick D
(Montreal, Quebec, Canada)

Small, white, flat-ish beetle that looked like it had been sprayed with ceiling stucco. Really! I thought it was a small piece of tissue paper at first. Dark or black shiny eyes (just two I think). Maybe it had six legs, maybe 8, I couldn't tell from my pictures and I didn't examine it closely enough (I just wanted it out of the house!). Found it at end of July inside the house, sitting on a wooden table near some of my motorcycle clothes on the ground, so it probably hitched a ride the day before while riding off-road through an open field of tall flowers near irrigation water. Scooped it up with a piece of paper, it didn't run fast nor fly away, and I deposited it outside in the garden.

white Insect/bug looks like mold (Lacewing larvae)

by Britt Watson
(Georgia )

I have no idea what this bug and or insect is, but it looks like it's covered in mold or fungus that grows on trees.
It was found on the deer stand in the woods. What is it?

Big White Grub

1 inch crub of some kind. Found in 1 foot of soil in Los Angeles.

White Furry insect on Peony pod (Hopper)

by Cid White
(Middle Georgia / Laurens County)

Tiny "White Furry" fury

In late June 2008, after the petals had started to fall off my peonies, I noticed this "piece of lint with legs"! I've no idea what kind of insect it is; is it a spider, a flea... no idea where to even start researching it. It's extremly tiny, maybe 3/8 of an inch from nose (?) to tip of tail. The "covering" was very much fur-like. Couldn't tell for sure how many leg, but I think 6. It was very alert to my taking it's picture and I had to keep turning the plant as it would back around the pods. A couple of times it raised it's fuzzy little tail and flicked it in a ferious "warning" manner. Any idea at all what this is? I do have a couple more pictures, but not as well focused.

Doug says - I've put this through even though the insect is pretty small just in case Moni can see it (cause it's easy). If not, we'll have to ask you to get a closer view this summer. I note it's pretty hard sometimes for Moni to id things that she can't see clearly.

Growth on dwarf lilac bushes (White scale)

by Linda S.
(New Jersey)

White substance on lilacs

There is a soft, thready, white substance that has appeared on my dwarf lilac bushes in the last week or two on the northfacing side of the bushes. The most recent rainfall was three nights ago, rainfall has been sporadic, brief thunderstorms that are normal for this time of year in NJ.

The white material rubbed off easily when I tried to remove some and the bark beneath was softened and stained my fingertips a light color. There was what appeared to be spider silk-like threads between my fingers afterwards, but no visible insects or arachnids that I could see. The photograph was taken last night which is when I originally submitted my question. Doug suggested I upload the picture here instead.

Any ideas what is infesting my lilacs? How do I remedy this and save the bushes. The lilacs were just gorgeous this spring.

little white nautilus shaped insect (Cottony cushion scale)

by Darlene Cepeda
(Stockton, CA, USA)

White nautilus shaped insect

This tiny little creature is killing my lilac bushes and now it is attaching itself to my rose bushes...EEK! What is it and how can I get rid of it?
It has already sucked the life out of one of my lilac bushes. I dug it up and disposed of it and hoped that would be the end of it but the pest is back this year. I have been spraying it off weekly but it seems to be persistant.....Thank you a zillion times over for any help you can give me. And even though I don't know you Moni I think you do an awesome job!

white small and furry (wooly aphid)

by kayla
(southwick, MA,US)

it is very small about 1/2 cm. it has small clear wings with slight black lines and its abdomine is a white/light blue color and its furry