Something is munching on my leaves

[squirrel789]

Hello all,

Something has taken a liking to munching on the leaves of my Better boy, Cherokee Purple, and especially a little tumbler tom I have in a hanging basket.

This is totally a newbie question, as I'm sure you folks have seen it many times before, but what is doing this? Most importantly, what can I do to stop it? It's only a leaf or two on each plant, so far.

I looked at the underside and a super tiny white thing that seemed to not move and after picking it off I still couldn't see it well enough see what it was. I assume a mite of some kind perhaps?

I have some Safer Soap Insect Spray, but have read elsewhere on the web that it can be toxic to some tomatoes. I've read through a bunch of posts here that say people use it, some won't, some wash it off afterwards, but there seems to be little consensus so I thought I'd ask again as some of the threads were older. Thanks for info you might have on using this product.

I'd like to stop these pesky munchers before they spread as the damage is limited at the moment.

Any help or advice is very much appreciated!

I took a pic of the top and the underside of each leaf. The first 2 pics are the Better Boy, and last 2 are the Tumblers, which also have some yellow spotting on them, but only on these eaten leaves. Any thoughts on that?

That poor Tumbler plant was accidentally hanging in exactly the wrong spot, just below a clogged area in my gutter and got super drenched and beaten down by some heavy rain run-off from the roof before I realized it and fixed the problem.

Thanks again!