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ID Please - Bugs on nettles

R6LadR6Lad Posts: 2
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Hi, 

Does anyone know what this is? it seems to be all over my nettles...

Thanks

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  • pansyfacepansyface PEAK DISTRICT DerbyshirePosts: 21,173
    edited June 2019
    I would say that what you are looking at is not an insect or a bug.

    It is the result of an insect’s activity on the nettle plant. The plant has produced a blister which is obscuring the insect.

    If you were to open up one of these blisters you might find a sap sucking creature inside it. Or you might not. They often make the mess and move on.

    The same sort of thing happens on blackcurrant bushes and it is caused by a special type of aphid.

    EDIT: Forget all that. It’s caused by a fungus rust.
    See here
    https://thelastfurlong.wordpress.com/2014/05/27/puccinia-urticaria-nettle-mystery-solved/



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  • herbaceousherbaceous OxfordshirePosts: 2,309
    Do any of them move @R6Lad ? Because they look more like galls than bugs.

    Hi and welcome by the way  :)
    "The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."  Sir Terry Pratchett
  • R6LadR6Lad Posts: 2
    Many thanks @pansyface  it is a rust called Puccinia urticata! 

    :smile:



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