Insect and Spider Identification: Jumping fluff...?!, 1 by VaMtnDude

VaMtnDude wrote:
What is this weird bug? I keep seeing it on my night-blooming cactus, and every time I think I've killed it, it reappears again. It's literally just a piece of tiny white fluff with legs! Whenever I try to squish it or spray it, it jumps and/or flies away. Whenever it reappears, there's usually an oval of similar white fluffy stuff on one of the newer leaves, and the bug is sitting in an empty spot at the exact center of that oval. I keep wiping that fluffy stuff off the leaves because I'm afraid it's laying eggs and there will be thousands more next time. So when did dryer lint learn to fly and start attacking plants?!?