Interesting find ID this please

[Dcsco]

Clearing land and cut a low hanging branch Noticed it was covered with white fuzz that was moving. Took a picture and then ...what do you think happened?

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[Dcsco]

Another pic.

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[Dcsco]

Got stung and stung and stung some more by bees with black and yellow strips on the rear section.


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[motorhead99999]

So what was the fuzzy stuff?

 

[Dcsco]

Don’t have a clue yet. You can see two red eyes in the first pic. I didn’t think bees , larva or pupa, left the nest. They develop fully. Maybe the bees and the white things were not connected?


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[Del_]

Don’t have a clue yet. You can see two red eyes in the first pic. I didn’t think bees , larva or pupa, left the nest. They develop fully. Maybe the bees and the white things were not connected?


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The white stuff might be hemlock woolly adelgid.

Or they might be the crawler stage of a scale insect.

 

[Ikeholt]

Looks like Woolly aphid also. Lots of little woolly critters around.

 

[Jed1124]

Beech Bark Scale. Vector of Beech Bark disease.

 

[Jed1124]

My mistake. Beech aphids.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beech_blight_aphid

 

[Jed1124]

The sooty mold from this particular critter can be quite extensive. I’ve seen Beech completely covered in black ash looking sooty mold.

 

[Dcsco]

My mistake. Beech aphids.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beech_blight_aphid

That looks like what I saw. Just lucked into bees at the same time. Thanks.


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[Dcsco]

https://youtu.be/_C7BKQHhkKY


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[Dcsco]

Figured out how to upload a video.


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