2 or 3 years ago I had some pepper plants in containers on my driveway. One sweet, one ghost pepper and one scorpion pepper. The sweet pepper was closest to the treeline and started losing peppers first. Just past it toward the house was the scorpion pepper. I walked down the driveway to check my mail and found a scorpion pepper, just one, lying in the driveway with a rodent sized bite out of it. *chuckle*. They left all the peppers alone after that.
Can you imagine what the squirrel was thinking when it bit that pepper? :)~ It’s mouth was on fire!