Thanks guys, I'll totally use the peppers, but the plant is thrashed. I tried to bring it back to life but I was too late. =( It was my largest and highest producing plant (of all my peppers). I will miss it very much. I'll try to make a positive out of this and say that I'm looking forward to sprouting a cayenne seed or two. I'd like to have my old plant, but it's always fun to bring them up from seedlings. Thanks a ton for the info guys.

The larvae are worth their weight in gold when it comes to munching on certain pests. Only specific types of LBugs feed on spider mites. The adults will usually feed for a short time, mate, then fly away.

The dew point is merely the temperature to which the air would have to cool (at a constant pressure and constant water vapor content) in order to reach saturation. Then, when saturation occurs, depending on other factors and how they come together, you can get fog, clouds, precipitation, dew or frost. Your dew point can be lower than your air temperature but it is never greater than your air temperature. When your air temperature and dewpoint are very close or the same, the air generally has a high relative humidity value. The dewpoint can affect how comfortable or uncomfortable we humans (and other animals) feel. When dewpoints are lower than 65 degrees, we generally feel relatively comfortable. When dewpoints are 65 degrees or higher, we start to feel sticky and uncomfortable. Dewpoint is not the same as Relative Humidity. RH values indicate how close the air is to being saturated. Frost is caused by radiational cooling, which happens as the earth loses heat (generally because the sun has set) and temperatures drop below the freezing point at ground level. There are different degrees of frost and you can see anything from light damage to no damage to heavy damage. A freeze is caused by advective cooling. Normally this occurs when a mass of cold air moves into the area (via the passage of a cold front, for example, with cold Arctic air) Freezes and frosts damage plants in different ways. Oh, and the use of the term hard freeze generally means temperatures are expected to fall below 28 degrees for along enough period to do harm. I haven't read up on this in a few years, but the NWS has guidelines for the issuance of each different type of freeze, hard freeze or frost warning. They only use them during the growing season. A Frost Advisory is issued when the predicted temperature is expected to fall to 36 degrees or lower in the next 3 to 30 hours. Please understand that you can have frost even at temperatures up to 40 degrees. I often see patchy frost at 37 or 38 degrees, but only rarely at 39 and I am not sure if I've ever seen it at 40 degrees. A Freeze Warning is issued if there is forecast to be an 80% or higher chance that the air temperatures are expected to fall to 32 degrees or low in the next 3 to 30 hours. A Hard Freeze Warning is similar to a Freeze Warning, but with the temperature threshold being 28 degrees. Sometimes the actual air temperatures do not behave as forecast (last night is an example of this) and the NWS has to hurriedly issue a Frost Advisory, Freeze Warning or Hard Freeze Warning with no notice, putting it into effect immediately.

Leaves make food that supports growth - removal of part of a top reduces size increase. More information needed to figure out why it died. Meanwhile there is this: Problems with Planting Trees – The Garden Professors™