Holes in my pepper leaves!Help!

[armadillo]

One of the plants has suddenly got a scattering of round holes over most of the leaves- not at all like slug damage, no visible critters.
They also appear to have some kind of virus as the top leaves are wrinkling & curling, but no aphids to be seen.
Not happy- they're just flowering.
Anything I can do to save them?

[srodders]

My Chillis are the same - if you look very closely under all the leaves you may see lots of tiny caterpillers. That's what is causing my problems, that sound teh same as yours.

[armadillo]

I've had a look, and I can't find any caterpillars. However, there's powdery-looking beige stuff on the undersides of many leaves - it's stuck on really well, could be thousands of eggs of some kind.
Have sprayed undersides with nasty chemical 'bug clear' gun as I am not happy AT ALL with the idea of some b*****d beasties destroying my lovely shiny pepper plants just as they start making peppers.

[Kristen]

Mealy bug? - although I think they would only make the leaves go yellow, not create holes.

I've got some hole sin my sweet pepper leaves too, and no apparent critters.

[ratglass]

Hi Its definately caterpillars got them too, really tiny and green you won't spot them till they are bigger. I just try to squash them when I see them. If disturbed they will make a kind of web and fall off the leaves!! If your chilli plants are fairly big they should whether the storm.

[srodders]

The plants will be OK, but watch out - the caterpillers eat the chillis when they get bigger!!

[newveggrower]

I think I have the same problem, they're attacking the leaves of my radished, turnips and lettuces. I have noticed an influx of butterflies in my garden recently and caught one of the little beggers trying to lay eggs on them yesterday, but I think I scared it away just in time.