It could be one of the oakworms, Sue, probably the spiny oakworm/anisota stigma. This cat is highly variable in coloring, but it has the long, red-spotted purple style "horns" that few moths have. If it were me, I'd offer it some oak leaves - still, it may not eat them, because when you see caterpillars wandering around they're usually going to pupate/cocoon. MissSherry

Wow Bob... I feel for you. That's crappy. It might be an insect. I had a hornworm do similar damage to a bhut. But, in my case, somehow I bagged the hornworm when I bagged the blossoms, he didn't start eating the fruit until he'd eaten all the foliage, but he put a similar hole in my bhut. I have a ton of house sparrows that are living in my garden (and I mean about 30), but they seem to be more interested in my tomatoes than peppers. You need to get out there in the night and look around. I had a lot of damage a couple of years ago in my greenhouse, I am not sure if it was the lizard I found in there or if it was the crickets. I don't think mice or rats. One fall I had a mouse problem, the damn things removed the fruit off the plants and moved it into the corner of the greenhouse. While cleaning I found a big pile of peppers. They didn't touch the fruit other than removing it from the plant. Pam

My Dad was the same way, Lazypup. Not with the hair and beard, since he was bald and couldn't grow facial hair because of facial cancer and a tissue transplant, but in the way he dressed when he was out with his cameras. He was a physician, but photography was his passion. He took black and whites, and would go out every chance he could and snap all day long. Not only did he dress for comfort, many times he would have his very well behaved dog Max (an Australian shepherd) with him in some of the roughest parts of Chicago. He was never bothered with that dog by his side. Stay true to yourself!

Crassula cephalophora who really wants some sunlight!