need help identifying a bug

I should take a pic but anyways....on the tomato plants and some other plants i have these red squishy bugs that look somewhat similar to a lady bug. I've tried to find em on the web but i haven't had any luck.
I want to know if they are harmful or hurtful and what to use to get rid of em if they are harmful.

 

I have those too, I think some kind of Beetle


http://images.google.com/imgres?img...ants&hl=en&rlz=1T4DMUS_enUS292US292&sa=N&um=1

 

They are half-grown potato bugs.
This is full grown (laying eggs- those really bright orange globs on the leaves)

 

Sevin Dust................

 

little dish detergent and a beer in your sprayer, hook it up the the water hose and spray everything in the yard... i keep a squirt bottle on the side for a quick spot treatment here and there... but that should do it

 

that is the bug. they were orange with the black spots when i saw em.

 

I pick them off and feed them to the fish, but you can use sevin dust or spray, I've never used the dish washing detergent, I might try it though.

 

i used sevin on them.

I picked my first brocoli the other day. will anymore grow from that plant or is that it?

 

If you harvest it right it will regenerate....

 

what's the right way to harvest it?

i just googled it and it seems i did it the right way. cut with a knife about 5 inches below the head.