If you can't see anything then it was probably a passing grasshopper or something like that...don't know how big your plant is but I wouldn't be too concerned about a couple of leaves if the culprit doesn't seem to be around...I really believe in sharing...just kidding but there is an old saving and it is so true about growing...One for the blackbird, one for the crow, One for the cutworm, and one to grow....notice they don't mention the catepillars or the hornworms or the grasshoppers....etc etc....

Yep, turned over a few leaves, looked around, nobody was anywhere to be found.

Well that is a relief.

today I went out and saw ants all over the banana pepper plant :( not huge ones but very small black ones. They seemed especially attracted to the flowers on the plant. Are they the ones eating the leaves and destroying the plant? :( If so what can I do? Ive ready cinnamon? I want to stick with organic.

I find ants in my flowers on my peppers, and since I've not seen a single bee this year, but every pepper flower is fruiting, I leave the ants alone.

I have never known ants to hurt my garden they just bite me when they can...I live in fire ant country so I hate them but as far as I know they don't damage my plants.