Can anyone identify this pest on my roses?

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A bit more information that I’m discovering. The roses that have these insects on them are in my front garden which is surrounded by lawn that the HOA maintains periodically they do fertilize and spray which I have no control over unless I move my roses. These white insects are colonizing on very hard to see webs and in all kinds of grass clippings and debris that collects.

Initially I did not see the infestation because it just look like a white piece of lint or some thing that blew onto a rose. But now I see the webs in my front courtyard in a long where the wall meets the sidewalk or the pavement and anywhere that’s kind of low lying. And I see that these webs have clustered in the cut grass that is attaching itself to the bottom of my rose pots.

This a.m. and I sprayed everything off with a garden hose on the pots and everywhere I could see those webs and then sprayed with insecticidal soap. I sprayed the roses with insecticidal soap yesterday and that seems to have made a big difference although I still see some. What are your thoughts on what’s happening here and what type of insect is this as you can see it’s probably about a quarter of an inch long with legs and wings.

It looks like a seed to me. One with its own “parachute “ that rides on the wind. Essentially harmless.

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This looks like the seed from a dandelion and not an insect. You can have a hundred of these little seed heads blowing on the wind and landing on your plants.

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Do you mean the Dandy Lion seed?

It looks like a seed from a Cottonwood tree

Or milkweed seed all carried by the breeze.

I bet they are in the webs because it is spider season AND seed season. If the HOA maintenance uses leaf blowers they have just blown these all into any existing webs you had in your yard.

Yes! The HOA uses leaf blowers and this explains a lot! :grinning: