My oranges have these strange brown things on their skin. They look like seeds or perhaps parasites. What are these?
Edit: As suggested by @RohitGupta, I've added a close-up photo of the "bugs". Here, the things look more like bugs.
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They are not seeds, They look like bugs to me. Try prying one out and get a closeup photo. – Rohit Gupta Jan 27 '23 at 13:04
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@RohitGupta I've added a closeup photo as you suggested. Still don't know what these are though. – Antoine Aubry Feb 02 '23 at 13:13
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looks like some sort of mite or leach, or like those weird bumps you find on tree leaves but smaller and longer – redfrogcrab Feb 02 '23 at 17:07
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If most of the fruit is so heavily embedded by the bugs then you cant remove them from these fruits very easily.
I would try to save the next lot of fruit by spraying with an insecticide and/or some sort of oil (such as mineral oil or Conquer Oil from yates). I am not associated with Yates. Insecticide before flowering and Oil before fruiting.
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