Garden Pests and Diseases: Aphids, Spider mites, something else? How to deal with them?, 1 by Dirus

Dirus wrote:
ecrane3, these pictures might be misleading. That is a high resolution macro picture, and these are probably the smallest aphids I've seen. This one has the tip of my finger in the shot on accident. Compare for size.

Also, as I mentioned, water doesn't seem to wash these guys off. They hold on really tight. If I want to clean a leaf entirely I pretty much have to peel away at them with my finger nails.

There are a bunch of different species of aphids, this is just one I haven't seen before.