“My containers are 30” from the ground and I picked a nasty 3” cattypillar from a pepper yesterday that had decided to munch on banana pepper leaves.”
The difference in our situation may be your containers even though up from the ground, are on open land where caterpillars would be and could crawl up there. Remember, I am in town and there are high brick walls around my garden so no open ground for critters to crawl inside. I have never seen a caterpillar here. If that changes, you can be sure I’ll tell you. :o)
I had to spray my grapes today. A bunch of caterpillars ate every leaf off of a 12ft tall vine.
Rightly, did you have to rain on the parade? LOL Lots of critters come from moths and other flying stuff. So if a bee can land on it, so can the less desirable flyers that like to leave eggs behind. I hope you are correct Marcella, but time will tell.