thanks for the info! i had the same bugs on my cherry tomatoes in cocoa beach fl.
LEAFFOOTED BUG NYMPH by: Moni
Anonymous
If they are the leaffooted bugs in the photo they eat plants not people so they do not bite.
same red bugs by: Anonymous
found them on my cherry tomatoes this a.m. Do they bite??
Leaffooted bug nymph by: Moni
Vicki
Are yours red like these? There are gray ones that look similar that are squash bugs that are pest of all kinds of melons and squash plants.
They're eating my melons by: Vicki from Florida
They enjoyed my cantalopes last year. This year they are in my watermelons. They seem to show up when the rainy season starts.
Leaffooted bug nymph, Leptoglossus spp. by: Moni
DonnaW
The insects on your tomatoes are Leaffooted bug nymphs - Leptoglossus spp. This is a bug in the Coreidae family.
They probably had just hatched and moved on to other plants to feed or perhaps a bird got them?!
These insects feed on plant juices, but are not considered a pest of the garden.
Once they become adults they are much easier to ID to species. Here are a few images of adults and nymphs of this genus - http://bugguide.net/node/view/245/bgimage?from=24
