ID those leaf munchers and how to get rid of them?

[kishke]

I'm having issue with 2 types of bug chewing my pepper's leaves, they are both white and small. first one seems like a hairy white worm or something and the other is a really tiny flying bug, look like a white dot on the leaf.
I got some pictures, the worm I took with my phone, the flying one my dad helped me with his super macro lens.

Also the wierd thing is I got a row of potted healthy plants and underneath them 2 plants in the ground, only the 2 plants that are in the ground are suffering.

 

[gasificada]

The "hairy" one look like a mealy bug.

 

[kishke]

It says in wikipedia mealybugs feed on the plants sap so I doubt its them considering the leaves are eaten

 

[PapaBill]

I wouln't think either of those two would cause visible chewed leaves, although they may be doing their own damage. Have you tried going out after dusk every couple hours and checking for other critters?

 

[kishke]

Not yet but I'll check tonight. Any though about why only the ones in the ground are affected?

 

[thegreenman]

Snails may be your culprit if the chewing damage is only on the plants on the ground.

The first insect may be a winged aphid...but it looks mangled.

 

[kishke]

Not sure if snails can survive the heat here, anyway at the start the holes were in the middle of the leaf and later on the chewing appeared on the sides. I'll do some reacon work today and see if I find anything and I'll add pictures of the holes later maybe it will help.

 

[Dave2000]

^ Though it has been approaching 100F in the daytime here, slugs still come out overnight and eat things, but usually only leaves touching the ground.

The winged one might be an aphid but they suck instead of chewing leaves. Any chance you have leaf cutters, leaf hoppers, or grasshoppers coming out now? I don't know what insects are native to Israel.

 

[kishke]

^ Though it has been approaching 100F in the daytime here, slugs still come out overnight and eat things, but usually only leaves touching the ground.

The winged one might be an aphid but they suck instead of chewing leaves. Any chance you have leaf cutters, leaf hoppers, or grasshoppers coming out now? I don't know what insects are native to Israel.

I'm pretty sure it's not slugs because I didnt see any slug tracks. According to wikipedia leaf cutters are endmic to america, no clue what are leaf hoppers but we do have grass hoppers.
Couldn't catch anything at night tho every time I went there I saw ants on both the affected plants, maybe its a clue.
Also here are some pictures:

 

[Dave2000]

Unless the damage gets significantly worse I wouldn't worry too much about that minor amount of damage. A leaf hopper is like a tiny grasshopper except instead of jumping with its legs, it uses its wings to fly very short distances at a time from one leaf to the next. It'll land on a plant and chew a hole up to several times it's body size. They don't bother my peppers much but love munching on my okra leaves.

 

[kishke]

Today I didn't notice any new munching so maybe whatever did it moved along only time will tell.
It also seems like whatever it was tasted the leaves until it found a yummy one, you can see the right leaf on the buttom picture suffered the most and over a few days unlike the other that suffered once and thats it.

 

[wasatch front]

Gasificada is right, the second insect appears to be a mealy bug. I'm not certain about the first insect, the picture isn't very clear but it could be a whitefly. It is unlikely that either insect caused the feeding damage in your pcitures. The somewhat symmetrical feeding damage on the upper right leaf in the second plant picture likely occurred when the leaf was still quite small, before expansion. It could be due to a number of different insects including thrips. As the newer, younger leaves do not show this damage, it would appear that whatever was responsible has moved on.