Insect and Spider Identification: CLOSED: Scarlet Plant bug, Lopedia, 0 by bigbubbles

bigbubbles wrote:
Can anyone tell me if these do damage? I had them crawling all over the new growth on my Mt Laurels last week. Before I killed off beneficials, I posted on the TX. forum and someone found them. Another person found that they suck leaves of new growth. Trying to be organic, I vacuumed them off the edges....100s of them. I reported it to the Master Gardener desk last week, and this morning got a call back that they are not pests. All the new growth on my Laurels is gone........I've Googled them and not found any info other than pics of them.....