Beginner Gardening: Please tell me what is eating my pepper plants!!, 1 by locakelly

locakelly wrote:
Pinger - I know exactly what you went through!! I had a similar experience a few weeks ago. I was looking for them as I had seen droppings, but couldn't for the life of me find one. And then there it was, right in front of my face... Scared the daylights out of me and probably the entire city of Phoenix when I screamed. I tried to pick that puppy off the flower it was on and it wouldn't budge. That totally upped the "creep factor" of this thing! I finally had to grab my garden scissors and cut the entire stem off. Then I threw it in a bucket of water until it stopped squirming - yuck!! Major yuck!! In this picture it's still clinging to the branch, dead as a doornail - lol.

I've found a couple babies since, but nothing as big and gross as this one.

Kelly