It looks and sounds like you have two types of pests - brown scale are the round-ish blobs. The tiny bugs, along with the speckling on the leaves, sound like spider mites. Google those names to see if they match up along with various ways to eliminate them. Brooke

Box Elder bugs, probably kind of a misnomer, eat pollen from about any "Acer" plant species, maples, of which the Box Elder is one. They are around all year, are harmless critters and in the fall look around for some warm, cozy place to spend the winter and that is, anymore, our houses. They find their way in though cracks in the protectivce envelope of our houses, the siding, so the best way to keep them out is to carefully inspect the exterior of your house and caulk any and all points of entry since other, less desireable, thingys can use these same cracks, points of entry, to get inside.

Also…..the pictures of the worms with fifferent shapes…..thats a parasite that lives in freshwater snails…..it can mutate into several different shapes so it can attach to different shells…..it is curable. Look up the treatment for this online and then have a doctor confirm your diagnosis for you by running the appropriate tests. Another thing….. After reading this I had the bright idea to put peroxide on the black dots in my skin (they hate peroxide)….and the dot turned white in more of a large triangle shape around it. Then…..I decided to go get my iofine which removes skin tags by topical application….i rubbed it aggresdively on some of the black dots and THEY CAME RIGHT OUT OF MY SKIN LIKE SELF PROPELLED SLIVERS!!!!! Maybe Iodine is the answer. We no longer have it in our food bc the soil has been depleted since yhe 80's. I take it with water a couple drops here and there. Iodine can become toxic and deadly if you excede the recommended dosage……however, topical use works!!!! If applying to large areas of the body it shpukd probably be diluted. They also hate salt……and vinegar…..so maybe following with a salt water soak to wash the iodine. It majes sense SEAFOOD/IODINE……FRESHWATER SNAILS/SALTWATER. Iodine And Real Salts tend to work well together. MOTHER NATURE is a very very smart lady;)

Sorry for your bugs! My problem children this year are the white spiders. Pretty much every picture I squint at I see a white spider. I don’t know what they’re eating but they’re everywhere!