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What Bug and How Kill?

19 years ago

Adult pictured less than 1/2", on 1/2" aviary wire, bug flies, LOOKS TRANSPARENT GREY never solid, the young are tomato green and look like hairy young aphids but jump high. All have stylet they insert into stem of forming tomato blossoms sucking sap until blossom dies. Discolors tomato stems and on some varieties black spots appear, in some cases so bad I've tossed plant which never did well again. This years plants are loosing nearly ALL their blossoms, last years loosing most. These bugs undeterred by Safer Soap, garlic spray, Neem spray, Montery Insect Spray (Spinosad), they are too fast to smash and they have shown up in any location I plant. Today I'm trying tinfoil reflecting back under plants. Thanks.

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