If they are aphids then it seems like I did the right thing, I guess you can manually kill them whenever they latch on to the leaf, EARLY on that is and it is early. I have been checking the plants off and on for about an hour and a half now and so far I don't see any making their way up the stems or even under the leaves but it does piss me off knowing that one of them fell off into the soil. Does this mean that he will be right back up the stem and onto the leaf? I hope that they aren't laying eggs in the soil or something.