They might be the cast-off skins of tiny insects that moult as they grow. But whatever they are, I don't think you've anything to worry about, as the leaves look healthy otherwise. Strong healthy plants will shrug off insect damage on such a small scale.
I don't know, but wish you posted more often. I smile every time I see your user name...wish I had thought of it. I grow those red stemmed chard leaves, had a white fly infestation once and they look a bit like that. But yours looks pretty healthy.
Thanks for being so obliging .....Bloody Nora 70 plugs! I grow mine mostly for our birds so not quite so fussy if they are a bit buggy . But my white fly were quite bad (last year) so even rinsing off didn't work that well. Sorry I threw them in the compost and started again. (There is a limit to how grotty they can be even for our birdies )
Yours might not be white flies though? Apologies I can't remember quite how ours looked on the leaf before they got bad, but you know if you have them! Hope someone can identify them for you. I agree they are some kind of casing as joshua says.
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I grow those red stemmed chard leaves, had a white fly infestation once and they look a bit like that. But yours looks pretty healthy.
As for the white fly did you do anything to remove? I guess in the end it's a bit of added protein
I grow mine mostly for our birds so not quite so fussy if they are a bit buggy . But my white fly were quite bad (last year) so even rinsing off didn't work that well. Sorry I threw them in the compost and started again.
(There is a limit to how grotty they can be even for our birdies
Yours might not be white flies though? Apologies I can't remember quite how ours looked on the leaf before they got bad, but you know if you have them!
Hope someone can identify them for you. I agree they are some kind of casing as joshua says.