Another pest for identification

keylimin · June 23, 2013

Recently found on several of my yard plants, but also on vegetables.
Hops like a flea if you touch them. The third pic is the egg cases on bottom of leaves.

rockhound · June 23, 2013

Are they always found alone, not in bunches? Resembles "wooly apple aphid" altho they usually bunch up and it's getting late for them I think.

Kazfam · June 23, 2013

I would say some sort of tree hopper nymph. Not a good bug to have on your plants. Recommend squishing.

crocee · June 23, 2013

Sorta looks like cottony scale but I didn't think scale attacked vegetable plants.

keylimin · June 24, 2013

Yes, it appears in bunches around a stem, and the egg cases are on the undersides of leaves in bunches along the stem of the leaf. Looking at the pictures which come up on the web for all the suggested bugs so far, nothing matches exactly.
I do have one tomato that got hit with white fly but that seems to be contained to that one plant now.
These bugs above are on a flowering plant and also they like the new tender growth of my keylime trees!

keylimin · June 24, 2013

A little better pic of this pest. Now on my hibiscus.

linzelu100 · June 24, 2013

Tree hopper. Very hard to discourage. I get them on my sunflowers. They drain the plant of sweet sap like an aphid, only they aren't easy to squish because they hop so quickly. I plant something else I know they like to save my sunflowers. I plant other flowers and they go on them instead. They don't appear to be doing any real harm to the flowers because they still have nice blooms and I don't worry about missing sugars because I am not eating them. Usually you will see the tree hoppers working with ants. They are quite annoying.

June 23, 2013	#3
Kazfam Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: Upstate South Carolina Posts: 113	I would say some sort of tree hopper nymph. Not a good bug to have on your plants. Recommend squishing. __________________ God Almighty first planted a garden, and indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment of the spirit of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiwork. Francis Bacon

June 23, 2013	#2
rockhound Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Tennessee Posts: 285	Are they always found alone, not in bunches? Resembles "wooly apple aphid" altho they usually bunch up and it's getting late for them I think.

June 23, 2013	#4
crocee Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2013 Location: Arkansas Posts: 27	Sorta looks like cottony scale but I didn't think scale attacked vegetable plants.

June 24, 2013	#5
keylimin Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2011 Location: Outer Banks, NC Posts: 15	Yes, it appears in bunches around a stem, and the egg cases are on the undersides of leaves in bunches along the stem of the leaf. Looking at the pictures which come up on the web for all the suggested bugs so far, nothing matches exactly. I do have one tomato that got hit with white fly but that seems to be contained to that one plant now. These bugs above are on a flowering plant and also they like the new tender growth of my keylime trees!

June 24, 2013	#7
linzelu100 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Apr 2013 Location: Virginia Posts: 447	Tree hopper. Very hard to discourage. I get them on my sunflowers. They drain the plant of sweet sap like an aphid, only they aren't easy to squish because they hop so quickly. I plant something else I know they like to save my sunflowers. I plant other flowers and they go on them instead. They don't appear to be doing any real harm to the flowers because they still have nice blooms and I don't worry about missing sugars because I am not eating them. Usually you will see the tree hoppers working with ants. They are quite annoying.