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Problems, problems, and more problems. What are these on my pepper plant? Should I stomp on them?

Maybe some kind of ‘hopper’ — Planthopper? Leafhopper? Treehopper? — they are sucking pests. Easier to deal with in juvie stage.

OKay so basically I should destroy them just to be on the safe side? I don't want anything sucking on my plants....I left them alone for now wondering if they could possibly be a good bug but tomorrow morning I'll get rid of them.

No - I meant look up those and see if any of them look like yours. I think they look like planthoppers, less like any of the leaf hoppers, but some treehoppers look like those too.

A couple other characteristics of hopper juvies is typically ants will tend to them, and the plant hoppers and tree hoppers will tend to nip the leaf vein, so you will find the leaf broken where they cut off the vein and wilted. I usually see them on sunflowers and not so much on peppers.

If they DON’t look like any of them, then they could be something else. Remember, you will have insects that are local to your region that I would never have seen before.

you're right, applestar. homopterans (hoppers of some sort) being farmed by ants.

I destroyed them, I don't want any leafhoppers growing and sucking the life out of my plants.