Bermudagrass scale

No, you aren't hallucinating. Those things that look exactly like small oysters clinging to the stolons of bermudagrass, centipedegrass, bahiagras, St. Augstinegrass and even tall fescue are real. But they aren't miniature oysters, and we don't advise eating them with a squeeze of lemon and cocktail sauce either. Because these animals are actually insects known as bermudagrass scale (Odonaspis ruthae). It is found everywhere that warm season turfgrasses are grown, and is almost always associated with some other forms of…