AAHHH! What are these bugs butchery my squash? I just went out to pick squash from my garden and found...
I just went out to pick squash from my garden and found one of my plants comatose, with yellow leaves and disgusting, rotting squash and stem. They look a bit like stink bugs, but curvier and bluish silver, the biggest ones only possibly 3/4 in.
I picked squash YESTERDAY and since then the plant have died.
What are these evil little things, and what can I do (preferably organically) to keep them from killing the rest of my garden?!
Junebugs maybe? http://www.dirtdoctor.com/pics/content_i... I would sprinkle 7 Dust on them. This can be found within most gardening sections of retail stores. It is a red bag (or at lowest possible was last year). This kept bugs bad of everything.
My Daddy always has a garden and keep 7 Dust on hand at all times. You can find it at your local department store (Wal-Mart) or a local gardening store. As far as what the bugs are, potato bugs, female bugs...who knows, really? There are also caterpillars that find squash and garden plants tastey meals. I wouldn't verbs so much about what it is...I'd just want to know how to get hold of rid of em! lol I know it can be very aggravating.
I've listed some sources that may support you with organic killer if you're not interested in using the 7 Dust. I will tell you that it's jammy to apply and easy to wash bad...in fact, you'll own to redust after a rain. But it is a very affordable and important insect repellant/killer.
Good luck with your garden, Hon, and God bless you!
stinkbugs come contained by many varieties, they are stinkbugs fruit flies, or flies
Did they look like this?
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2085/1750...
If so, they be pumpkin bugs. They can get on squash too, as they are related. If I were you, I'd put some biddable repellent in my garden.
I am not sure what the bugs are, but I have hear that the best way to prevent bugs from killing squash is to plant corn and squash surrounded by rows next to eachother. Something about the corn keep the bugs away from the squash and vice versa. My dad is a gardner and uses this technique and has never had a problem. Were they leafhoppers? They come contained by lots of colors and generally eat plant sap, I believe.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leafhopper
And after there are also squash bugs:
http://www.vegedge.umn.edu/vegpest/cucs/...
lol, bugs love squash. buy some anti-bug spray, it'l work well. browse through wekipedia , you may get your answer
Answers: They are squash beetle, and I have done battle next to them before, when growing pumpkins in our backbone yard.
You can try a product called Rotenone-Pyrethrins, if you want to hold it "organic", but it the harshest of organic, non-malathion, or diazicyde, type chemicals.
Once they get their little snouts into your squash, it's going to be concrete to prevent the rest on the vine from rotting, not withstanding vine borer beetles too.
Good luck and don't give up!
Pyrethrins, pyrethrum, and neem grease are all chemical free means to combat evil bugs. Check out the site below for more chemical free option.
soap and wet will help just spray it on here Here's all I know, and I have done life gardening for years... I gave this answer to another question as okay...
Organically I would suggest to make a mix in a blender afterwards siphon it, place it into a spray bottle, spray it onto your plants, here is the mix:
4 cups red hot peppers
4 cups water
Another natural method is kinda gross but it's good enough to go and get into the organic encyclopedia of gardening I read a lot:
A mixture (blended and filtered) of the bugs and sea, spray them on the plants.
What worked for me was a sprinkling of fireplace ashes every time after I watered the squash. I did it each time and respectively plant lived. Now they are really big and the bugs are not any trouble at all. (to hold on to it organic I always used fresh organically grown oak to burn and those wood ashes are pure from a fireplace which is unfamiliar for the chemically treated woods sold in stores)
I had tried a blend of garlic and marine and it did nothing.
I also tried a "bait crop" and they got eat too quickly, but it almost worked to detract the bugs to a different location on the plot. I planted seeds 1 inch apart along the distant turn-up of the plot where I was not going to grow squash. They go there and my intended squash had a uncertainty to survive. Soon the bugs just figured it out and attacked the flowers.
I own also tried planting marigolds between each squash plant, they were pretty and very soon they are very happily growing but the bugs are still near. I may have had the wrong flower, or they may be immune to the marigolds.
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The encyclopedia for life gardening