How to get rid of squash bugs?
Beer...@nospam.nashville.com
How do you get rid of squash bugs, I get them at the roots of plant,have trie
moth balls & also sevin dust, but they still get the squash, thanks
Beerbrain@ nospam.nashville.com (take off nospam)
Andrew Burgess
In <6fro6v$ed0$1...@usenet76.supernews.com> Beer...@nospam.nashville.com writes:
>How do you get rid of squash bugs, I get them at the roots of plant,have trie
>moth balls & also sevin dust, but they still get the squash, thanks
Floating row covers will prevent them. Make sure you till well before
planting and covering to destroy any overwintering in the soil.
Related note: I read yesterday in OG that if you are trying to protect
melons you can plant squash next to them and the squash bugs leave
the melons alone preferring the squash!
PepperGrow
Beerbrain recently posted and asked:
>How do you get rid of squash bugs, I get them at the roots of
>plant, have tried moth balls & also sevin dust, but they still get
>the squash, thanks
Well Beerbrain, here's one good source of info (with pictures) on the Web to
get you started on resolving yourSquash 'Bud' ;-), I mean Squash 'Bug' problem:
http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/dp_hfrr/extensn/problems/squashbg.htm
Hope this helps. :-)
Good Luck!
Gary Cooper
On 31 Mar 1998, Andrew Burgess wrote:
> Related note: I read yesterday in OG that if you are trying to protect
> melons you can plant squash next to them and the squash bugs leave
> the melons alone preferring the squash!
>
At last! Somebody's finally found a good use for squash!
;-)
Pat Kiewicz
In article <Pine.SUN.3.96.980408...@infoserv.utdallas.edu>,
big...@utdallas.edu says...
As a squash and melon grower (and a fan of 'pumpkin' waffles, YUM!)
I have to mention two things:
#1: As I remember it OG said the squash will attract *cucumber beetles*
away from melons. (Colloquially, they are 'bugs' that attack squash,
cucumbers, and melons but are not 'squash bugs.')
#2: If you are planning to rely on squash to protect your cucumbers
and melons from cucumber beetles and the wilt disease they carry,
I've got some lovely bridges I can sell you... (Sure, the squash are
more attractive to the beetles, but it doesn't take many beetles
to infect a melon planting with bacterial wilt.)
--
Pat in Plymouth MI
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Kiki Hiott
In article <6gg2d3$q68$1...@trellis.wwnet.net>, kiewi...@wwnet.com says...We heard somewhere last year that putting cedar chips under the plants would
get rid of squash bugs. We had beautiful healthy plants and put out the
cedar chips. our sqaush plants were dead within a week! So...I don't think
cedar chips are the answer.
Kiki Hiott, Zone 7, OK
Matt Brown
squash plants to repel the squash borer. I'm not sure if this works or not,
but I am going to give it a try (as well as some other companion tricks).
Hope this helps you......
Matt, z9, Ca
m&v
I used a method last year by putting plain old white flour in the
dustin mizer, and powdering the squash, and all other plants squash
bugs like. This seems to gunk up their mouth parts and they starve.
It worked like a charm, but I am not talking about putting so much
flour on the photosynthesis cannot take place. A light dusting which
is almost invisible to the eye is all you need. Do this in the morn
when the leaves are dewey.
Victoria
m.u...@nospam.sprintmail.com
I have heard this about radishes before and tried it to no avail. Later
I found out that it is supposed to be "icicle" radishes that do the
trick. Not quite sure what difference this makes, but I'm willing to
try.
Mike
Bruce Yates
Squash them???
Beer...@nospam.nashville.com wrote:
>How do you get rid of squash bugs, I get them at the roots of plant,have trie
>moth balls & also sevin dust, but they still get the squash, thanks
Gary Cooper
A bonus would be that then if you want to make fried squash, it's already
breaded.
:-)
Gary
James M Kocher
While visiting a permaculture homestead site in Kentucky last summer, we
heavily watered the squash plants and the squash bugs came running out
and climbed as high as they could. We just picked them off the tops of
the plants and the nearby garden posts where they climbed to escape and
got rid of them this way.
The secret was to heavily heavily water the base of the plants.
Jim Kocher-Hillmer, Pittsburgh PA USA
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Gary Cooper
On 8 Apr 1998, Kiki Hiott wrote:
> We heard somewhere last year that putting cedar chips under the plants would
> get rid of squash bugs. We had beautiful healthy plants and put out the
> cedar chips. our sqaush plants were dead within a week! So...I don't think
> cedar chips are the answer.
>
> Kiki Hiott, Zone 7, OK
>
So, I'll bet you didn't have very many squash bugs after that, now did
you?
So what are you complaining about?
;-}
Gary
(P.S. My brother read in a catalog that a bed stuffed with cedar shavings
was a wonderful thing for pets, because fleas wouldn't hide in the
bedding, since cedar repels fleas. So he sent off for one for his cat, and
the ad was true -- the bed never picked up any fleas, either because of
its natural insecticidal properties or possibly due to the fact that the
cat would never come anywhere near that strange-smelling thing on the
floor...)
Daniel R. Christy
On Wed, 08 Apr 1998 22:28:10 -0500, m.u...@nospam.sprintmail.com
wrote:
>
>I have heard this about radishes before and tried it to no avail. Later
>I found out that it is supposed to be "icicle" radishes that do the
>trick. Not quite sure what difference this makes, but I'm willing to
>try.
>
>Mike
Planting Nasturtium with the squash is supposed to help.
Dan.
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cucumber plants and find this works well. You have to remove the cover
when the plants bloom. I find that this is past the peak of
infestation.
farmer brown
Kiki Hiott wrote:
> In article <6gg2d3$q68$1...@trellis.wwnet.net>, kiewi...@wwnet.com says...
> >
> >In article <Pine.SUN.3.96.980408...@infoserv.utdallas.edu>,
> >big...@utdallas.edu says...
> >>
> >>
> We heard somewhere last year that putting cedar chips under the plants would
> get rid of squash bugs. We had beautiful healthy plants and put out the
> cedar chips. our sqaush plants were dead within a week! So...I don't think
> cedar chips are the answer.
>
> Kiki Hiott, Zone 7, OK
kiki,plant radishes, nasturtiums,or french marigolds along with your squash to
repel them.also as they are a larger insect you can put on gloves and squash them
squash bugs
Bob Morrison
farmer brown wrote in message <353514CF...@texoma-ok.com>...
I check my squash every day, and throw away the small squash where the eggs
are hatching. The result has been excellent.
Bob M.
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Mike Worley
Squash bugs can be readily eliminated with Dipel. Follow directions, and
you won't have a problem. MW
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m&v
In <6h676e$7...@bgtnsc02.worldnet.att.net> "Mike Worley"
<cashmer...@worldnet.att.net> writes:
>
>Squash bugs can be readily eliminated with Dipel. Follow directions,
and
>you won't have a problem. MW
Bt must be injected into the stems for the larve to injest it. Squash
bugs are not the same thing as the butterfly which lays her eggs into
the stems of the squash stems. Squash bugs are true bugs which hatch
out as a tiny version of the adult bug. For the squash bugs, I use
plain white flour, dusted lightly on the foliage, and it gunks up the
mouth parts of the bugs. The larve inside the plants stems are not
squash bugs, but are the larve of a white butterfly...I don't recall
what they are called. And I could be wrong.
victoria
Pat Kiewicz
In article <6h7ool$q...@dfw-ixnews3.ix.netcom.com>, ani...@ix.netcom.com
says...
>The larve inside the plants stems are not
>squash bugs, but are the larve of a white butterfly...I don't recall
>what they are called. And I could be wrong.
For future reference, the squash vine borers are the larvae of a moth.
It's one of a number of species of 'vine borer' moths which mimic the
appearance (and even flight patterns) of bees and wasps. They are
active during the middle of the day. I believe some pretty good
pictures are available on the Web, but don't know any URLs off-hand.
The squash vine borer moth is black with orange stripes/markings. The
fore-wings are dark and the hind-wings are transparent.
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farmer brown
m&v wrote:
> In <6h676e$7...@bgtnsc02.worldnet.att.net> "Mike Worley"
> <cashmer...@worldnet.att.net> writes:
> >
> >Squash bugs can be readily eliminated with Dipel. Follow directions,
> and
> >you won't have a problem. MW
>
> Bt must be injected into the stems for the larve to injest it. Squash
> bugs are not the same thing as the butterfly which lays her eggs into
> the stems of the squash stems. Squash bugs are true bugs which hatch
> out as a tiny version of the adult bug. For the squash bugs, I use
> plain white flour, dusted lightly on the foliage, and it gunks up the
> mouth parts of the bugs. The larve inside the plants stems are not
> squash bugs, but are the larve of a white butterfly...I don't recall
> what they are called. And I could be wrong.
>
> victoria
they are called squash vine borers and prefer winter squash
Pat Kiewicz
In article <3537B71F...@texoma-ok.com>, far...@texoma-ok.com says...
>they are called squash vine borers and prefer winter squash
>
They prefer pumpkins, acorn, and summer squash (C. pepo) and
hubbard/buttercup type winter squash (C. maxima) but don't cause
much trouble for butternut squash (C. moschata). Don't know
how they effect cushaws (C. mixta) as they require a longer
growing season than the others so I haven't grown them.
The stems on bush zucchini can be thick enough that they can
tolerate the vine borers for quite a while, but the long-vined
squashes can break off when the borers get into them.
I control borers by hand-picking the eggs (while the vines are small)
and growing a butternut and a hybrid butternut/buttercup cross,
for winter squashes. (Sometimes I end up injecting pumpkin vines
with Bt. Have to grow pumpkins for Hallowe'en!)
m&v
In <3537B71F...@texoma-ok.com> farmer brownSquash vine borers are the bain of contention during the summer squash
season, and LOVE my zuccini as well. They may prefer winter squash,
though I never heard that, but they sure do love my summer squashes
also.
V