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Learn to Identify and Prevent Cucumber Beetles
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Please don't use sticky traps! I got them for the first-time last year and within a week I had a poor bird stuck on one, and it was still alive when I found it, so I had to humanely euthanize it. those traps can catch ANYTHING that comes along, including pollinators, birds, frogs, amphibians, even small mammals. I still feel bad about that bird. My yard is full of wildlife. those traps are terrible.
Thank you! Very instructive.
I find catching these cucumber beetles easy. I usually always find them in the male flowers of my squash plants. Of the 10 I have caught in the last couple of days, 7 were in the squash flowers in the front of the house. Three were in the backyard on squash leaves, which did not have any flowers. To catch them I use eye tweezers on the flowers and just my fingers on the leaves.
Why do I have Cucumber Beetles on my roses? How do I get rid of them? They're living in my roses and eating the roses. Thanks!
Yes, the adults can cause minor damage to rose petals. Choose a pesticide that has a low impact on natural enemies, such as lady beetles and pollinators. Neem is a plant based pesticide that prevents insects from feeding, which eventually kills them. Pyrethrins have no residual and treatments need to come in contact with the beetles to be effective. Finally, there are broad-spectrum pesticides (permethrin, bifenthrin, lambda-cyhalothrin and carbaryl) but we don’t use them since they kill beneficial insects, too.
Kathy,
The hard orange worms inside the roots/stems of your plants sound like wireworms. There are possibly beneficial nematodes available.. ..or maybe have chickens there to scratch for a while.
They are small and appear to eat thru the skin.
So I’ve seen on different gardening pages and I can’t find it again now I am mixture of hot peppers garlic and maybe a touch and dish soap. Cannot harm any crops? Also will that help deter most things?
Newly transplanted cucumbers fall over dead. On digging down, I find a very hard orange worm burrowed into the stem, underground. What is this pest and how todo I control? Is there something I can drench the soil with?
they like petunia flowers also , the flower.