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Adrian Hunsberger
Adrian Hunsberger is the Urban Horticulture Agent and Master Gardener Coordinator at the University of Florida/Miami-Dade County Extension office in Homestead. She has a bachelor's in horticulture from Virginia Tech and a master's in entomology from UF. As the Extension office's resident entomologist, she draws on her more than 13 years of research experience at UF to teach pest management to homeowners with a special emphasis on biological and organic controls.

Write to her at aghu@ifas.ufl.edu.


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The brown dots on the underside of the leaf are fern spores.
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Are spots on ferns scale (bad) or spores (good)?

What look like scale insects on your fern are actually fern spores. Insects would not be found in neat rows but would have a more haphazard distribution on the leaf.

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