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bluemerle wrote:
One of my Bell Pepper Plants--Canary Yellow is getting eaten alive!!!

Please HELP!!
Does anyone know what this might be, or better yet, HOW to get RID OF IT!!!
It seems to beginning to effect the health of the entire plant.
It's really HOT here in Las Vegas--106 degrees this last week, and it can't stand anymore stress.

All my Pepper & Tomato Plants are in containers so I can move them out of the blasting sun, if that matters.

ANY BODY?? Any information would be greatly appreciated.

I'm sorry these phone photos are so fuzzy, it's the best I can do!!

Guess what??? I just this very second went back outside to take another pic, and found and inch long green worm, (not a hornworm, pretty sure), eating this giant hole in the same Pepper Plant!!!
He was on the underside of the last pic. Granted, MUCH bigger hole, but there was skeletonizing all around the area.
Maybe he just grew. Doubt he's the only one, huh?

BT's the answer--right?! Don't know at what temperature I can spray that at...Should I spray all 5 of my plants?
The Tomatoes are several feet away....Already killed 5 "tiny" Tomato Hornworms off one. I keep a pretty
good look out, but they're sneaky.

If anybody thinks I'm mistaken, please let me know, OK?
Thanks