Insect and Spider Identification: CLOSED: Bug on Tomato, 1 by lray225

lray225 wrote:
See my previous post on July 22, 2010 for Fly on Tomato. I'm told this is not a true fly but a bug. This bug is about ⅛ inch or slightly larger in size and when I shake the tomato plant it will fly off and immediately back on. I only see about half a dozen of these bugs at a time. They are hard to spot without a trained eye. Here's another photo that I hope will help ID this bug.

The picture at the URL you sent definitely looks close enough to the one in my picture.. Thank you for the ID. At least it gives me something to work with to find out if this bug might be a problem on my plants. It is difficult enough to take a picture of a bug this small on a leaf that is blowing in the wind, but I can imagine that the job of cataloging all of the bugs and their traits must be an almost insurmountable task. Do you think the Cooperative Extension is going to be able to tell me anything from this picture of mine?

This message was edited Jun 25, 2010 12:00 AM