On Mon, 08 May 2006 22:30:31 GMT, Carl 1 Lucky Texan
wrote:

Pepper plants in large pots AND brugs in the ground elsewhere, all in my
backyard, have new growth that is assymetrical, small, distorted, as if
the very young leaf-let is being damaged when it emerges or is somehow
malformed.

Sounds like cyclamen mites, although I don't know if they attack
either of those plants.