This week something just stripped the leaves of my peppers who were getting their first true leaves. I saw a yellow jacket bee on a new moon flower leaf. Could this be the killer?
Something ate the leaves of my baby peppers
I already said this on your post in the greenhouse forum, but I'll say it here too so others can comment. My first guess would have been slugs/snails, have you seen any of those or the slime trails they leave behind? If your bee was a yellow jacket I don't think it could be that, they'll eat fruits but I don't think they'd eat leaves. But if it was a leaf cutter bee instead of a yellow jacket then it could have been the bee--on full grown plants they don't really do a lot of damage, just some holes in the leaves that don't hurt the plant, but on a seedling their holes could be most of the leaf.
I would look for caterpillar(s). Do you see any frass (poop)? That's a dead give away when they get a little larger. Usually snails/slugs make holes, but a caterpillar can devour a leaf quickly.
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