pod with hole?

newpeppergrower1105

newpeppergrower1105

i walk out to check on my pods and touch a small one and it fell off and go and inspect it and theres a hole in it i cut it open to find no bug inside
 
 
i need to know if my other pods are in danger this is the  first and only i found with a hole. if it helps it recently rained and has been coldish and cloudy for a couple days now
 
 
 
 
 
 Could be a bird, a creepy crawly, stink bug. Naw, kinda too big for a stink bug. Most likely bird or caterpillar. Have you opened up the pod to see if anything is inside? 
 
i think i found the bug responsible because i have never seen this bug before and its knida large i dont know how i missed it. and i have no idea what it is and i also found black sticky smudges on my pods also
 
 
 
Last year I got some of the same type of holes NPG.  Cut open the pods and found a few of these: https://www.google.com/search?q=earwig&rlz=1C1FDUM_enUS473US473&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=eZ_gUb6mLeGfyQHf0oHgBA&sqi=2&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1280&bih=649#facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=mQty_fc6b21yoM%3A%3BrEYHf6HCuRGy6M%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.hdwallpapersfan.com%252Fwp-content%252Fuploads%252F2013%252F01%252FEarwig-5.gif%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.hdwallpapersfan.com%252Fearwig-wallpapers.html%3B500%3B345
 
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They are earwigs, and they ate their way into my poblanos and anehiems.  It wasn't fun, lost about 1/3 of my crop.  They didn't get into all my peppers - just a bed on the se side of the house.  Good luck
 
Yup.
Got a few with the same, and larger holes.
Always the thin skinned ones, and they leave nothing inside----literally----empty shell.
 
As long as they don't get agressive with their munching, I am willing to share.
 
For the present.
 
Found a hole in one of my Dorsets recently.  Opened it up but found no bug.  Coulda been earwigs, I guess.  I tossed it out back in the city drainage ditch so if I missed it it wouldn't get on anything else.
 
now that im searching i keep finding earwigs and lots of them is there some natural pesticide for them? because i have some strong pesticides but it basicly kills every bug even good ones
 
newpeppergrower1105 said:
That's a bummer. How did you get rid of them?
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It is a bummer.  The bed that the earwigs got into was near my neighbor's house where he has a lot of wood mulch and firewood stacked against the fence.  I didn't plant peppers there this year (garlic instead) and thus far the far beds where I planted the peppers this year are looking pretty good. 
 
I figure working with the habitat and switching sites for the plants was better than spraying poisons.  
 
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