> "Jennifer Sparkes" <jspar...@zetnet.co.uk> wrote:
> > The message <3f2c3$4833ef16$3...@news.teranews.com>
> > from Martin Brown <|||newspam...@nezumi.demon.co.uk> contains these words:

> >>>> I hope perhaps Sacha or Mike will be able to offer a word of advice -
> >>>> I have two mature bay trees in my garden and one of them has small
> >>>> white furry spots on its trunk, which wipe off with kitchen paper.
> >>>> Inside the spots is a small brown mark, which looks like a little grub
> >>>> but it doesn't move and just 'melts' into the white stuff when smeared
> >>>> off the tree.  I am worried it is some sort of fungus disease.  Can
> >>>> you offer advice please?  many thanks in advance.

> >> Sounds like either mealy bug or outdoors more likely woolly aphid.
> >> Treat locally with a paintbrush dipped in meths.

> > I agree probably Woolly Aphid and I would use exactly the same
> > treatment just painting the actual spot/aphid not the whole stem.

> > Jennifer

> Sounds right to me!

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