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2024 garden season
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@Mad Professor. The squash bugs are a different critter than the striped/spotted cucumber beetles. Both are hard on most curcubits.
These are the critters I'm fighting with.
They eat the leaves, the flowers, and even the baby squash.
I just came in from knocking them into a cup of soapy water, and snipping the ones that tried to crawl away.
I'm pretty sure they wouldn't be so bad if it hadn't gotten so hot and dry, which stressed the plants.
I'm getting close to just pulling them all up... but it's supposed to rain in the next few days, so I'll wait a little longer.
These are the critters I'm fighting with.
They eat the leaves, the flowers, and even the baby squash.
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I just came in from knocking them into a cup of soapy water, and snipping the ones that tried to crawl away.
I'm pretty sure they wouldn't be so bad if it hadn't gotten so hot and dry, which stressed the plants.
I'm getting close to just pulling them all up... but it's supposed to rain in the next few days, so I'll wait a little longer.
That's a squash bug. You can cut down on the population by smashing the eggs on the underside of the leaves like in your image.
I've been getting rid of the eggs, too.
In the fall they always show up. Thats a sign of early frost. They get on the pumpkins and squash to keep warm at night! Gottum here too!
Found a bunch of squash bug babies on an ear of field corn this morning. Got rid of a lot of them with my handy dandy Bic lighter.
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