Garden Pests and Diseases: Pepper Plants Pooping Out Leaves Dropping, No Peppers, 1 by unionmaid

unionmaid wrote:
Our pepper plants are sick. The leaves are spotted and blighted and are dropping off, leaving the plant with leaves at the top, few flowers and even less fruit. I haven't seen any bugs. About a month ago, I did find four or five orange colored egg masses -- one each on different plants in different parts of the pepper patch. I removed them. Almost all the plants sick, the exceptions being a couple of jalapeno pepper plants in the same patch that are thriving -- no leaf problems, lots of peppers.

I've attached a pictures of one of the plants. Fellow gardeners, can you help? Thanks in advance for any and all suggestions and advice on identification of the problem and how to manage or eradicate it.