the ash trees seed prolifically, especially along my fence. every year i have to cut down tons of volunteer ash tree seedlings. this year, the undersides of the leaves were filled with little long skinny bugs that i've never seen before. TONS of these bugs. they were killing the leaves. which i didnt give a toot about. i want the seedlings all dead anyway. but cutting them down disturbed the bugs and they swarmed me and freaked me out. they LANDED on me. EVERYWHERE! i was brushing them off and running away. very yucky!
i tried to look up what kind of bug it could be, but i couldnt find anything, and the more i looked, the worse my heebie jeebies got so i had to stop. it is definitely NOT the emerald ash borer in any stage. these were skinny, long, black with two white spots up by the head/neck, two further down the body. sometimes only the one by the head. some were a little more brown than black, but most were black. about a quarter inch long if even that. easily 20-30 bugs per underside of EACH leaf. they were leaving white trails in the leaves. not eating the leaf itself, but leaving trails like leafminers do.
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