Can anyone help me identify some bite marks please? I'm attaching pictures.
I've seen some ants around, I'm planning to get rid of them. These marks however seem to have some "saliva" left-over, which is weird. I thought it could be a snail/slug, but I didn't find any slime trail anywhere around the plant, nor in the ground close to the plant. As you may notice I'm using growbags, so it could be that it's hiding below the growbag during the day. Still, I didn't find slime trails around.
Today is the first day I've noticed these ones, and they are only present in 2 plants, out of the 10 I have. I have them in a row, so it's likely that this pest is living close by this end of the row. These are tomatillos, which is a variety of mexican green tomato.
Any guesses and recommendations?
By the way, I heard cinammon powder would keep ants away, so I sprinkled a circle around the base of my plants, but I think it didn't work that well. I'm not sure, becuase it has been raining recently and the water washed it away. How to keep ants away, in your experience? Should I continue with the cinammon?
Thank you very much for your help!