Something ate the leaves of my baby peppers

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raggins Paris, TX Feb 22, 2008

This week something just stripped the leaves of my peppers who were getting their first true leaves. I saw a yellow jacket bee on a new moon flower leaf. Could this be the killer?

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ecrane3 Dublin, CA(Zone 9a) Feb 22, 2008

I already said this on your post in the greenhouse forum, but I'll say it here too so others can comment. My first guess would have been slugs/snails, have you seen any of those or the slime trails they leave behind? If your bee was a yellow jacket I don't think it could be that, they'll eat fruits but I don't think they'd eat leaves. But if it was a leaf cutter bee instead of a yellow jacket then it could have been the bee--on full grown plants they don't really do a lot of damage, just some holes in the leaves that don't hurt the plant, but on a seedling their holes could be most of the leaf.

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ceejaytown The Woodlands, TX(Zone 9a) Feb 26, 2008

I would look for caterpillar(s). Do you see any frass (poop)? That's a dead give away when they get a little larger. Usually snails/slugs make holes, but a caterpillar can devour a leaf quickly.

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