I think it is horn worms.....I just pulled 2 index finger sized horn worms from mine. I noticed two of my plants had the top leveld off and large piles of poop from the the worm.....thats always a tell tale sign
Benjamin Franklin’s admonition made over 200 years ago when he said, “Security and freedom are not the same thing… in fact just the opposite. The more security you seek, the less freedom you have. The people with the most security are in jail. That’s why they call it maximum security.”