Texas Gardening: bug id please, 1 by greenie67

greenie67 wrote:
I found these all over my lamb's ear. Something has been eating my whole garden and I think these might be the culprit. Can anyone id them for me? Also, I've had a lot more little flies this year. They have tiny little irridescent green bodies. Could they be eating things too? My japanese variegated knotweed is in bloom right now and there are all kinds of critters I've never seen before all over eat getting nectar. I'm wondering if that's what is on our boxwoods too. We cut them way back over the winter. Just as it started getting new growth , something is taking perfect little semi-circle bites out of the leaves. It's eaten them back to the stems. Any ideas?