Please help ID 2 things

18 years ago

Hi all, i am growing my first crop of tomato plants and i am probably just being paranoid but i have two things i would really like to identify. First off i cut the end of a leaf off because it had a hard white dome shaped thing stuck underneath it.The other thing i would like identified are these little reddish brown bugs. There are hundreds running around the floor near my hydroponic nutrient tank. There are also some of the same bugs inside my nutrient tank. I will upload three pictures to help identify these things.

This is the hard white lump underneath my tomato leaf, it looks like small eggs joined together with a really hard shell ???

http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/1213/eggsunderleafvy4.jpg

And these pictures are of the bug that i find near my nutrient tank and inside it there are hundreds running around on the floor outside,(i am using an autopot system).

These bugs are about 1mm long

http://img48.imageshack.us/img48/5199/bugdq2.jpg

http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/2082/bugsnx1.jpg

Sorry about the blur with the pictures its the best i could get. Thank you in advance to anyone that can help me..

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rhizo_1 (North AL) zone 7
18 years ago
Well, it's a bit too blurry for me to help much. The little ones look rather like cockroach nymphs, though. Could that be a possibility?
wolf22t
Original Author
18 years ago
Thanks for the reply, i dont think its cockroach nymphs, as they are all the same size they live in the soil where one of my plants is, if i dig the soil up i see them running all over. They are exactly the same as the ones in my nute tank. I got two awesome pictures today.

The first one is of the cockroach looking bugs. You get an idea of the size of it in the first picture as it is on my hand.
http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/9850/bugonhandcw7.jpg
http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/3715/bug2kf7.jpg
http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/6303/bug3ee9.jpg

And these two pics are of the white thing under the leaf (its a much clearer picture)

http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/7039/underleaftm4.jpg
http://img360.imageshack.us/img360/8968/underleaf2sy5.jpg

I hope someone can help me ...
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rhizo_1 (North AL) zone 7
18 years ago
Much improved images, thank you! But, darn it all, I haven't a clue as to what these things are! Rest assured that this will 'bug' me to no end until I or someone else (Jean????) comes up with an ID!

If I were you, I would remove the cluster on the tomato leaf.
wolf22t
Original Author
18 years ago
thanks for your reply anyway, please if anyone else has an idea it would be greatly appreciated. I just cut the end off the leaf that had the cluster on it, really weird stuff. I now have another red spider looking thing, it looks like a mite but i think its too large. I can spot them really easily without a magnifying glass ??? Here are two pics of the latest bug which are like twice the size of the first bug i showed you.

http://img128.imageshack.us/img128/3404/89291838zt4.jpg
http://img523.imageshack.us/img523/2346/73921910wx1.jpg

I just don't want to get rid of something that may be helpful in the long run.
rhizo_1 (North AL) zone 7
18 years ago
Now, THAT's an arachnid of some sort, a velvet mite or similiar. I'm now thinking that the other critter is an arachnid, too. I had thought that it had 6 legs and long antennae, but those 'feelers' suddenly look like legs to me.

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