I have a beautiful red honeysuckle in it's third growing year. This spring it started it's bloom cycle as usual with leaves and then hundreds of buds! I was excited because it has attracted hummingbirds and butterflies galore! Last week I looked in horror as seemingly overnight the leaves shriveled up and the blooms turned black and dry! I looked for the obvious but instead I found a strange bug...I searched the net for my pest with no success in ID for this wretched critter. The best way to describe it is to say it looks vaguely like a lightning bug with a stripe of red hairs going the length of it's body. It is probably 1/4 to 1/2 inch long. I panicked and wacked the whole thing back to justs it's main trunks and branches. Thank goodness, yesterday I found little leaves poking out of the branches. My neighbor has the same thing on one of his two bushes and sprayed his and mine with an oil (not dormant oil) today. What is this thing and what should we do about it!?

Thank you one and all!