Hi rjinga - same controls as for squash bugs and stink bugs - same family - and there are lots of posts here with control suggestions that a search will pull up. You can hand pick and squash (with foot not fingers ;), toss in a jar of soapy water, mist the bug with homemade soapy water spray, or use your chem of choice. I find that overhead watering brings them to the top of the plants for easy picking and that, combined with egg squashing hunts now and them controls them for me.

But you do need to make sure that (1) they aren't spined soldier bugs which are definite beneficials, and (2) that they are the ones really doing the damage. Because they are easier to see they often take the blame for damage that is really being done by other pests (specifically hornworms and blister beetles). Good luck. ;)

Dave

Yep, looks like one variety of leaf footed stink bug to me. They usually arrive and hatch out a bunch in a hurry when the hot, dry weather arrives. I hope that some one has a sure fire organic way to eradicate them, but I doubt it. Some people take a battery operated hand vacuum and suck them up then dump them into soapy water.

I have found that some dish wash liquid mixed with water and sprayed in a little hand held spray bottle will kill them, if your spray it directly on the bugs. DO NOT DRENCH THE PLANTS, especially in the heat of the day under the blazing sun. I am kinda reluctant to tell about that, even though it did enable me to keep my tomatoes ralatively free from damage by the stinkbugs, BECAUSE, then some one is sure to post about how it burned their plants, yada yada yada. I just make a couple of rounds per day, one early, one late and spray it sparingly and directly on the stink bugs themselves, not trying to treat the plant. Some fly away, some stagger around a bit and die on the plant before they can fly off. There always seems to be some the next day, but it seems to disrupt their cycle enough to the point that they do not destroy my tomatoes.

They come in a wide array of shapes and colors. If you scroll down far enough on this page you will find quite a few pictures of them, including some of their little red nymphs on a green tomato. They are pretty easy to kill when they are ganged up and are young. As they get older, their shell gets tough.

I will also be interested in what response your inquiry in this thread gets.
Good luck.
Bill P.

Dirt Devil Scorpion cordless vac. Works every time. Leaf-footed bugs are on the slow side, and not extremely wary. After you vacuum them up, dump in soapy water or empty into plain water in a bucket with a lid to keep them from getting out. Look in your plants for congregations of tiny lanky looking orange bugs with black legs. These are the babies.
Mrs H

I've got loads of these annoying critters on my tomatoes, and usually spend quite a bit of time in the early AM hunting them - I just try to grab them and squish. I'm definitely going to try the soapy water spray and maybe even the vacuum (though mine seem very wary of people and fly away quickly). Record catch for one day is about 25, but I really hate the sound and feel of crushing them! ICK!