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Old 08-14-2011, 05:26 PM
curlcoat curlcoat is offline
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What is this bug?

It was on my husbands tomato plants along with quite a few of its relatives. I've Googled around but haven't found anything that looks like this.

(Sorry for the crappy pictures, I had trouble getting the camera to focus on something that small.)

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Old 08-14-2011, 10:47 PM
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It looks like a keeled treehopper nymph...in other words, the baby version of the keeled treehopper.
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Old 08-14-2011, 11:00 PM
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It looks like a keeled treehopper nymph...in other words, the baby version of the keeled treehopper.
Yup, you got it in one! We even have ants all over in there getting the honeydew from these aphid-type bugs. Guess I'd better go get some keeled treehopper nymph killer.

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