insect control?

Hey,
I check up on one of my plants and it looks to me that insects have been eating it, There are lots of holes in the leaves and it looks like it's stunted the growth. They look like small 1/4 the size of a grain or rice, white/translucent things, they have small wings and have litttle intennas. Any ideas of what kind of spray i should use? I would like to use organic, but if thats not strong enough i will use chemicals. Any suggestion? By the way the plant is about waist height.
Thanks.

ive seen that some people in this forum said they used a mixture of water and very little pine sol for theit bug spray.

get a safer soap solutoin. remember that you are outdoors....so insect problems are just the nature of the beast. Also, your plant should be fine aslong as it is not being completely eaten.

yea, i had the same problem with 2 of my leaves, but that was a while ago and there hasn't been many mores holes since. but now, almost everyday, i find one white or clear spider on each plant. i kill it then the next day there is another one.. not to change up your thread dude, but does anyone know the best thing for spiders?? btw i live in bc so some stuff here might not be the same as say the states. thanks