Bugs & Scale & More Bugs

"Look honey," she said, "this is what scale looks like".  Of course, I acted as if I knew what that scabby looking thing was on the tomato plant (but I was clueless).  So I looked it up here, and now I am an expert... well, not really... but I know more than I did a few days ago.  When my wife sees these scaly things she either picks off the infected leaves or crushes them (there might be a more scientific way of dealing with them, but sometimes the simplest solution is best).  With all the hot weather in the last few days we have certainly noticed a lot more bugs around -- and with the local bat population still suffering from that white nose fungus, there seem to be more bugs in the air as well.  Here's a few pics of some common bugs:

That thing on the plant is called "scale" (it's actually an insect)

My friend, the spider

It's a caterpillar

This might be a flying ant

Lousy photography, but that's some kind of worm on the back of the leaf