No idea what they are, but just get some Sevin insecticide and they'll be gone. While I try not to use the potent stuff until it's absolutely necessary, any oils/natural solutions are hit-or-miss at best for established infestations.
Also...
We got nailed up here with the second round overnight. Tipper has me at almost 6" storm total. Some flooding in the neighborhood, but nothing too extreme. What nobody needs now is a tropical system over the next several weeks.
This has been one of the stormier days in recent memory. I enjoyed it. One more round coming through now.
edit: best storm of the day, and year. Tons of gorgeous spider lightning. I'm sitting under the porch just taking it all in.
About 1/4 of my tomato plants have started showing early blight lesions in the past day or two, in spite of my usual pruning regime and weekly Daconil treatments. Usually I can make it to July before foliar diseases show up. It'd be hard to invent a more favorable weather pattern for continued disease pressure than the one coming up.
Yeah, can't buy a downpour anymore. Even with thunder and small hail earlier I only picked up 0.06. The shower really seemed to intensify the campfire scent... not sure if it mixed down thicker smoke or just made it more perceivable with the higher humidity.