Here some history on the plants, they grew up in for two months were they were topped and fimmed i planted them the second week in july, they soon started flowering some sooner then later.. I started noticing little holes in the leaves and im thinking its spider mites.. since there flowering pretty good what should i do to take care of the pests, i have all ready used a mantis egg and lady bugs but lady bugs took off after two daYS and the mantis i only saw a couple.. I know it might be to late to spray but any advice and help would be great.. oh ya whats that little orange redish bug in one of the pics..
I think pic 1 post 1 looks like an ant. No idea what the bug in post 2 is. In my area that damage is usually done by earwigs/picherbugs to my basil. I don't see signs of mites because the damage they do looks more like the pic below and then eventually the leaf dries out and crumbles.