The first one looks like a type of leaf hopper. Harmless.

#2 & #3 are caterpillars. All caterpillars eat leaves, some have really big appetites. I don't know what kind this one is but if it starts eating lots and lots, it's time to apply sudden vertical compression (squish it).

The last one, a longish green fly is called a long legged fly. Harmless. Some are greenish, some are bluish, some even are yellow-orange.

First one doesn't look like a leafhopper to me, but I can't ID. If it is, it's not actually harmless. It sort of looks like a lygus bug to me. You've got a painted lady caterpillar underneath the silken web, and that pretty longlegged fly is BENEFICIAL, not merely harmless.

Painted lady caterpillars don't show up in huge hoards, like some others. The adults are among the prettiest jewels in the garden. If I had some of these on my plants, I would let them be.

I'll attach a link to a few leaf hopper images for you to decide.

Here is a link that might be useful: Leafhopper images

Well, shoot. (I had hoped to beat rhizo to the draw!) My reply to #1 is somewhere in the electronic fog.

#1 is a lygus bug. Seldom a problmm in home gardens but considered a pest for certain large-scale operations.

The ONLY way I can figure out that I even thought of lygus bug, Jean, is that I must have been reading your mind.

Thank you all for the info!

I was thrilled to hear about the Painted Lady they ALL can eat up the Mallow! There is plenty to go around.

I will go look the lygus bug, it is much bigger than any leaf hopper, but only one so far...

Shucks, no green flys today.....

Leasa

Does this still look like a painted lady baby?

The mallow is looking pretty ratty.

Do you folks still think this is a painted lady baby?