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Has destroyed all my pepper plants. Have t see. Any worms. Like they cut all the leaves off and remaining have just kinda withered. Sprayed em with some soapy water. Thought the soap might have hurt the plants. Never had that problem before. Didn't help much. Bell and banana peppers only. Bells had peppers on em. Nothing else in garden has been bothered. Just the peppers. Everything else looks great.
Hmmm??? Looks like I'll need to get a few more plants.
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No. This is a bug of some kind. I did see a really small black bug on one. Moved kinda fast.
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Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester
"Come, shall we go and kill us venison?
And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools,
Being native burghers of this desert city,
Should in their own confines with forked heads
Have their round haunches gored."
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No. This is a bug of some kind. I did see a really small black bug on one. Moved kinda fast. Any Ant Hills around? We have Ants out here that will do this but only at certain times of the day. And they work fast, they can destroy a couple plants in less than an hour.
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Possibly. But they usually are indiscriminate when they hit plants. Then again they may be hitting peppers first. About the only ant we have left here are fire ants. As all others have been run out by the fire ants. They don't usually hit the garden stuff here. But dang sure possible.
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Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester
"Come, shall we go and kill us venison?
And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools,
Being native burghers of this desert city,
Should in their own confines with forked heads
Have their round haunches gored."
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Yep, Fire Ants will do it. They are hell on the invasive Sahara Mustard around here. But that is a good thing.
A couple years back on a very calm and quiet day I was walking by some Mustard plants and heard a continuous "Rattle" sound coming from them, kind of like rain hitting them.
So I stopped to take a closer look and found that Fire Ants had set up an assembly line to gather the dry seed pods. It was kind of cool to watch as half of them were up in the plant cutting off the Seed Pods and letting them fall to the ground. The other half were trucking off with these in a continuous stream.
They were clearing these things out fast!
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The fire ants here were never really a problem like that. Matter of fact they would clean out all the other bad bugs and worms that were an issue. But anything is possible these days. Nobody ever thought they would see multiple queen mounds either!!!
All good answers!!! Thanks!!! I've got a big chili pequin native bush back there that's a volunteer plant. Matter of fact they pop up everywhere here in the creek bottom. It's not bothered by the bugs! I'm sure it's developed some kind of protective measure over time. Only thing that gives them Hell are the mockingbirds that simple relish those little Chilis!!!!! That's why we have so many of the plants here.
I'm gonna watch them ants!!!!
Thanks
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Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester
"Come, shall we go and kill us venison?
And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools,
Being native burghers of this desert city,
Should in their own confines with forked heads
Have their round haunches gored."
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Just got back from picking up some insecticide today. Sorry to hear about the pepper plants. Gonna spray Malathion out of the big sprayer all around the house. Something's been munching on my okra leaves as well. When in doubt, kill everything in sight! 
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Wondering. What about too much water? Everything else is going apey.
Curious?
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Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester
"Come, shall we go and kill us venison?
And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools,
Being native burghers of this desert city,
Should in their own confines with forked heads
Have their round haunches gored."
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Bob, sevin dust is your friend. 80% if you can find it, 10% if you cant.
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Thanks Randy! Back in the day Sevin was all I used! Guess I'll go get some more!
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Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester
"Come, shall we go and kill us venison?
And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools,
Being native burghers of this desert city,
Should in their own confines with forked heads
Have their round haunches gored."
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Well, I don't havta worry much about the garden anymore. We have a hell of a mess to clean up here this morning. But we all seem to be ok. And the house ain't leaking.
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Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester
"Come, shall we go and kill us venison?
And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools,
Being native burghers of this desert city,
Should in their own confines with forked heads
Have their round haunches gored."
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Well, I don't havta worry much about the garden anymore. We have a hell of a mess to clean up here this morning. But we all seem to be ok. And the house ain't leaking. Holy cow...Rain? We had to scramble a couple of days ago to save our garden from RAIN.
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Well rain. And WIND! Lots of wind. Hit here at 5. Lost a bunch of trees. One tree took out aerobic septic controller and all. Lots of fencing to repair. Blew underpinning of leeward side of house. No power (nothing out of ordinary) just a big mess. Was outta here by 5:30!
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Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester
"Come, shall we go and kill us venison?
And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools,
Being native burghers of this desert city,
Should in their own confines with forked heads
Have their round haunches gored."
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2" rain in the half hour.
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Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester
"Come, shall we go and kill us venison?
And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools,
Being native burghers of this desert city,
Should in their own confines with forked heads
Have their round haunches gored."
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Glad that you are safe my friend. Sorry about the mess, but other than the inconvenience, it can all be replaced. miles
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Oh man, sorry to hear this...
Can you imagine what it was like back when folks actually depended on their gardens in order to survive?
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Damn Bob, What did you do? Nuke the whole Damn place just to get rid of a few bugs! Good to hear you and your family are ok. Rio7
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LOL! Thanks all! Them sombitches drown this morning Blue! Got to get to work. Got a cottonwood tree to get off septic system this morning!
Well it was dead. And it was leaning a safe direction. But wind blew it opposite direction!!!
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Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester
"Come, shall we go and kill us venison?
And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools,
Being native burghers of this desert city,
Should in their own confines with forked heads
Have their round haunches gored."
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You need help with that?
I got what you need, and can be there.
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