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Insects On Hydrangeas

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FoxLee2 | 22:19 Thu 04th Jul 2013 | Home & Garden
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Earlier this evening, my son was showing me an insect that is rife on his hydrangeas. I tried to google to identify it but with no luck. It's about 3/8" long, white and flat. It's not noticeably doing any harm but I've never seen anything like it before. Can anyone help identify it please?
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It could be Hydrangea scale, which is in itself a pest. Do they move at all, asin from one part of the plant to another?
22:47 Thu 04th Jul 2013
Can you post a picture FoxLee?
Try Lygus bug
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Sorry I can't do a picture.

No, it's nothing like a lygus bug. You can't see legs, it looks like a piece of flat white paper! A little bit in the front was fluttering about - whether that was a 'head' moving about, I'm not sure.
It could be Hydrangea scale, which is in itself a pest. Do they move at all, asin from one part of the plant to another?
Sounds like a moth to me.
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I've googled Hydrangea scale and it looks like they are the ovisacs which are flat and waxy white. I'll pass that info onto my son.

Thanks everyone for your inputs.

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