alma47 said: Went out after dark with flashlight. Not too many earwigs, but lots of small slugs.
If there are smallish dots of black poop it is more likely earwigs that are doing the damage. I think slug poop is more elongated. It's hard to tell what the black spots are in your picture. It's also possible to have both doing damage. But I would think either of those is potentially your culprit because the petal surface is eaten off, so it has to be a pest with that kind of feeding behaviour.
