Hi everyone, I've got a foreign ecosystem growing on my balcony and I'm not sure what to do next!

We have three pepper plants in containers on our apartment balcony. Yesterday when we went out to check the leaves we noticed they had little guys all over their leaves. They were small (1-2 mm), thin, tiny whitish-green. They weren't sitting in bunches so we think they're not aphids, but we're not sure if they're baby spider mites or thrips. Based on some descriptions I've found on these I think they might be thrips, but it's really hard to tell! All these crawlies look kind of the same to me.

We then found a small (~1.5 cm) white little wormy dude - I thought it was a cabbage worm at first, but it had feet underneath its whole body, so I don't think that was it. It was crawling along the habanero plant. None of the leaves have been eaten so I'm not sure if I should be worried about this guy - maybe he'll eat my other bugs?

We immediately sprayed the leaves with a bit of water + soap solution, but the little guys were out in full force this morning when I got up to take some pictures. By this time they were also crawling up the peppers themselves, and we could see them in different sizes. And then, I found about five of these brown guys sitting on the jalapeno plant. They look like they might be a different kind of pest altogether!

I couldn't get a good clear shot of what we think might be the eggs under the leaves. They look just like the smallest bugs themselves, a bit elongated and only about 1mm in length. They don't sit in any particular pattern.

We're going in to the garden store soon to talk to the folks there about what to do next, but I think it will help if we can put names to these little dudes. If you recognize them, please let us know. And what worked for you? Thanks!