Wanted!

WANTED - One very destructive bug/creature. LAST KNOWN WHEREABOUTS - My spearmint plant. WANTED FOR VICIOUS ATTACK.

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No need to explain. You can see from the picture what has happened here. Now I love my spearmint plant, as mint tea is my absolute favorite. The unknown marauder did this to the entire plan overnight! Now I've heard of slugs and snails destorying plants overnight, but this doesn't look like their kind of damage. No slimy trails left behind. The only clue is what I would call bug droppings - little teeny weeny poppy-seed-like (only smaller) black dots all over the plant. I want this bug found dead or alive (preferably dead)!

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I'm hoping to save this mint. I've washed the leaves off and looked for bugs, though I found none. I also took some cuttings, stripped them of leaves, and stuck the rhizomes (fancy name for stems) in some planting soil. If the worst happens and my plant dies, maybe it will live on by the cuttings I took.

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Ah, sneaky, stealthy bug you are

Come to visit when I'm afar

Taking out my favorite plant

I bet you think you're brilliant

But I will watch and I will wait

and soon your munching I'll abate!