I found these black dots on both the apples and leaves. They are dome shaped and they come off intact using my nail. Sometimes without leaving a mark on the apple and sometimes leaving a mark outlining where they were but not seeming to penetrate the skin.
Mike
Is it a scale? I’ve only seen pics and never dealt with them.
They do look like scale. Never seen them on leaves- they are usually clustered on fine wood. If you look under magnification you should see little yellow circular things moving around on your stems if they are an issue on the tree. Scale can actually kill trees but obviously weaken them long before that should happen.
These dots are one milimeter across.
All photos I’ve seen of scale show scale as much larger and show scale congragating in mass.
These are loners.
Mike
Scale can be loners. But my first thought was an insect egg.
Artilery Fungus?
