For 3 years now, after planting at the beginning of May I religiously go out and pick squash bugs off all my vining plants; Squash, butternut squash, cantaloupe, cucumbers, pumpkins, zucchini, and even pole beans, this morning I even found them on my bell peppers, and I drop them in a soapy solution. I have filled two, gallon sized, bottles with these bugs and their carcasses and still they are everywhere. I have companion planted, sprayed Neem oil, sprayed organic soap, scraped off eggs and they are still everywhere. Right now my routine is to gently spray down the plants, to get the bugs to come to the tops of the leafs and then hand pick them. Then I go back and check for eggs and once ever couple of days spray a soapy solution and/or neem oil on the vines and leafs. I have even used sevin in a pinch.
In the garden I do not use mulch and have placed stone around the raised beds. In the winter I do a complete clean out and burn the vines giving them no place to bed over the winter. This year is the first year I have been able to keep the majority of my vining plants alive, although all the zucchini plant succumb to them.
Help me! PLEASE
In the article you state there is only one generation per/year, what do you mean by that?
How can I finally rid myself of these things?
For 3 years now, after planting at the beginning of May I religiously go out and pick squash bugs off all my vining plants; Squash, butternut squash, cantaloupe, cucumbers, pumpkins, zucchini, and even pole beans, this morning I even found them on my bell peppers, and I drop them in a soapy solution. I have filled two, gallon sized, bottles with these bugs and their carcasses and still they are everywhere. I have companion planted, sprayed Neem oil, sprayed organic soap, scraped off eggs and they are still everywhere. Right now my routine is to gently spray down the plants, to get the bugs to come to the tops of the leafs and then hand pick them. Then I go back and check for eggs and once ever couple of days spray a soapy solution and/or neem oil on the vines and leafs. I have even used sevin in a pinch.
In the garden I do not use mulch and have placed stone around the raised beds. In the winter I do a complete clean out and burn the vines giving them no place to bed over the winter. This year is the first year I have been able to keep the majority of my vining plants alive, although all the zucchini plant succumb to them.
Help me! PLEASE
In the article you state there is only one generation per/year, what do you mean by that?
How can I finally rid myself of these things?