Squash Bugs and Caterpillars

I am seriously outnumbered by the bugs out there. This morning I squished two adult squash bugs that appeared to be in the process of procreating. Then this afternoon I headed out to scrape any squash bug eggs off the underside of the zucchini plant leaves. Yikes! Not only were there lots of eggs, which were hard to scrape with the knife and keep from rolling off onto the ground, but I also discovered lots of little gray baby squash bugs crawling around. Ick. I suspect this wasn't the best course of action, but I just cut off the leaves that were covered in the bugs. As for the eggs, I can't say for sure I got all of them, but I think I got most of them.

Somewhat more humorously, this morning I spotted a small green bell pepper with a hole in it. I cut it off the plant and when I peered inside the hole there was a black and yellow caterpillar peering back out at me. It was sorta cute. It was like he decided why bother building a cocoon when he could just move into a nice green pepper. I am somewhat less amused, however, that the caterpillars aren't going to stop at eating the plant leaves and are going to go after the peppers too.