Thanks for the feedback. I thought it was something too that must be eating the leeaves, but we have throughly searched the plant and can seem to find any varments (as elmer fudd says.....).

I looked at the plant picture, as per the silk as shown in picture #2 and we do not have any real mite issue. We do have mites, as everyone else around here, but we do have a pretty stingent regement of control that with the lower temperatures is seeming to "control" these problems. (high temp 73F and low 62F). I was wondering if this type of problem could be caused by some type of "other varment" that we are not looking at. We have found some small fly's and was wondering if they might be responsible....?

Anyone other ideas I love to hear!!!!!