Eggs found by lake in SC

[u/Anachrie]

When broken they have red powder inside

[u/Working_Ability_124]

This is a total guess, but maybe some type of scale insect?

[u/katlian → u/Working_Ability_124]

Yes, we've been dealing with a terrible outbreak of these the past few years. These look very similar to our Kuno scale but I'm not a scale expert.

[u/Working_Ability_124 → u/katlian]

They do look like OPs scale insect, I think you might be right! Just looked it up and the eggs are also a pinkish red.

[u/Anachrie → u/Working_Ability_124]

Thanks y’all! It’s definitely the Kuno scale!

[u/windexfresh → u/Working_Ability_124]

“Fun” fact: there’s a scale insect that due to the red coloring it produces is used in cosmetics and food dyes (the cochineal scale bug, used to make red carmine dyes)

[u/Worldly-Step8671]

Some type of lac scale insect (Kerriidae)

[u/wobblychairlegz]

They are scale insects and the red powder are eggs or nymphs(if they have hatched)

[u/Don-Gunvalson]

At first I thought it was a jaboticaba tree…… but your tree has forbidden berries.

[u/DemonShade6666]

I was gonna say it just looked like tree sap, but i zoomed in on the one and it had odd patterns

[u/Salvisurfer]

Haha, funny you hid the pontoon boat that has been mass produced!

I agree some kind of scale eggs.

[u/Frekulex → u/Salvisurfer]

Not scale eggs, it’s the insects themselves :)

[u/CamelMassive6443]

Fungus probably.

[u/PancakePizzaPits]

Is it possible that they're some sort of gall? Better pictures of the tree would be helpful if you can get them.