"Phil L" wrote in message
. uk...
I have discovered two of my plants[1] have some weird bugs on the
stems,
these resemble woodlice but do not have legs, almost like limpets,
they
don't seem to move at all, they are approx 6 - 9mm in length and about
half
as wide, when squashed they are mostly water, they have no eyes,
tentacles,
feelers or any other protrusions, I've posted 3 small jpegs in the
newsgroup
alt.binaries.pictures.gardens.

[1] I don't know what the plants are neither, only that they are woody
stemmed, have multicoloured yellow and green (variegated?) waxy leaves
and
thrive under almost any conditions, except with these things on
them! -
there's an unsightly black deposit on some of the leves and stems
although
you can't really see it from the pictures, I just took a few snaps -
if
someone can ID the plants, the pests may be identifiable from there.

TIA!

--
If God had intended us to drink beer, He would have given us stomachs.

Maybe mealybug

http://www.upenn.edu/paflora/plantclinic/mealybugs.htm

http://www.olympichort.com/mealybug_scale.html

Regards,
Emrys Davies