Beginner Gardening: PLEASE HELP: Unknown insects reproducing on my sweet alyssum, 0 by loveblossoms

loveblossoms wrote:
thanks all for your replies. i'm not sure but when i googled "orange and black insects" i noticed these insects appear to be very close in appearance to the australian stink bug which i read can be a pest. and yes, they appear to be eating the foliage of my sweet alyssum (but not to the point of alarm or destruction) and reaching adult size rather quickly. now i wonder if the tiny "ladybug-like" babies (see pic) I first saw on my alyssum were actually these insects all along? (i was concerned at first that perhaps these insects were eating what appeared to be the baby ladybugs since the google description of this particular stink bug noted they might even eat ladybugs if necessary.) i have no idea still what i am looking at but i will monitor as one of you suggests, thanks. to-be-continued...