We came outside on a calm Sunday afternoon and decided to check on our garden. It was then that we discovered that our bell pepper plant that looked to beautiful with it's large dark green leaves the day before, was devoured from the top down half way. As I looked closer, we discovered these nasty little creatures. They look pretty cool--kinda remind me of the caterpillar on Alice in Wonderland, but they destroyed our plant, leaving nasty black poops all at the base of the plant. (Later, over the next few weeks, they enjoyed the rest of our tomato plants.) Dan took them out to the street and proceeded to bang them with a hammer until their green guts came out. It made me shiver. SO brutal. But those things were literally hissing at us!! I couldn't believe it. We couldn't even pry them off of the stems, we had to cut off the stems they were on to get rid of them. Next year, I will be armed and ready for those nasty green things!!
At least our corn stalks are looking pretty!!