What's Skeletonizing my Bell Pepper Plant?

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bluemerle North Las Vegas, NV(Zone 9a) Jun 12, 2014

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

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Flapdoodle Minot, ND Jun 12, 2014

Please check where your camera is focusing when you take these pictures, as it appears that the focal plane is well beyond whatever it is that you are trying to show. I cannot see anything to identify...

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bluemerle North Las Vegas, NV(Zone 9a) Jun 14, 2014

Ok Flapdoodle , thanks. Sorry I have such a cheap Tracfone ZTE # Z665C, Android 4.1.1.
4 GB, I think.
My husband says that the only thing I can do is move back away from the object. Then I don't
understand how you'd be able to see such small objects at all... The zoom just makes it worse. I took the 1st one ,(with the red edge), through a lighted magnifying glass. Duh!!

There weren't any bugs on the leaves that I could see, just the holes.
My husband's been talking about buying me a Digital Microscope that you can put up on the
TV screen, but we don't have the money yet. ,wouldn't that be cool? I'm always looking at insects and mysterious spots with my small inexpensive microscope, wishing that I could upload the imagine to show others.

Don't know what to do in the meantime, except try to do better.

I don't know if this is the correct forum for this, but do you know if it's alright to spray water on the tops of my pepper plants when it's over a 100 degrees with hot desert winds blowing.(25 mph)? Will it harm the flowers or give them relief?
Thanks, Diane
Was going to show you pics of how "curly" the tops are, but the "upload" button is missing!!

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