That is one crazy alien looking bug right there!
In that picture, at the underside of the stalk see that little white ball, is that an egg?
I am so fascinated by what kind of bug this is I've been searching the web for the last half hour with bong in hand.
It looks like a mite of some kind, being part of the arachnid family producing silk. Pretty sure no other bug that looks like that would produce silk? hmmmmm almost a month old post...
Not my words but from a random site with info on bugs:
Scale doesn't look much like an insect, but rather some prehistoric single-shelled miniature mollusk attached to your plants.