Hello all. I've been a long time reader of the forum but just decided to join to participate more. I've been gardening in Phx since I was 7-8 years old. Over the past 25 years I've experienced a ton of things from massive crop harvests where I couldn't even give away everything to near complete crop failures. This year, however is only the second time that I've had a major issue with my summer vine crops. 5 years back I had a massive squash bug infestation that took out 85% of my crops. This year I have just a purely insane aphid problem which has now turned into a mealybug and leaf miner problem as well. Three weeks back I released 1000 lacebug larvae to help and they didn't make even a tiny dent in the problem. I have another 5k on the way to release next week to hopefully get control of the problem. I'm now concerned about the diseases they have spread to my plants.

My bell pepper, but not hot pepper, plants have small white spots on thier leaves.

When looked at under a magnifying glass you can see that it isn't a growth on the leaf but a small indention.

In two spots I noticed an almost pattern like area that looked like something had hatched there.

Any ideas on what is going on here and if so what I need to do to organically control it?

Next, I have a few groups of strawberry plants, all first year and planted in the same custom soil mix. All receive the same water from drip. Most look healthy like this

However a couple plants look like this:

Everything is nearly identical so all I can think of is that these plants are a sign of soil that doesn't drain well enough. Any thoughts or suggestions?

I currently have about 20 different pepper plants growing. All but 3 are extremely healthy. The three that aren't are completely stunted and the leaves are much more yellow than the others. Here is a picture of the stunted plants.

Aphids have been present on them and 3-4x per week I spray them all off, however they do not seem to get to growing like the others I planted at the same time have. Any ideas? Should I compost them and replant new ones once the aphids are completely under control?

While I had a major problem with aphids on my melon and squash plants, my cantaloupe plants were completely clean until some leaf miner damage showed up. Then within 48 hrs they were also completely covered in aphids.

I just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing anything here. The cantaloupe plants are still flowering and growing at least 1/2-1" per day and have a number of lacewing nymphs and a hundred or so new lacewing eggs on them that will hopefully get the aphids and mealybugs under control quickly. Any other advice?

Can anyone identify this bug for me (sorry for the crapy angle):

Alright, I have a few other things but I guess I'll start there for now. I greatly appreciate any help anyone can give me.