How do I spar squash bore worms?
Use bleach and they will drown within it. Or if they dont they will die of the smell. No idea sorry!
I put row cover over my squash plants as soon as they turn in the ground and keep the covers on until the plants own female flowers on them (which come after the male flowers). the plants are big ample to take quite a bit of interfere with from vine borers at this point so i remove the covers so bees can pollinate the flowers and produce squash.
As has been said if you enjoy borers in the stems you can slit them open and remove the worms and than bury the stem contained by dirt to help it heal.
Also look for the eggs around the underpinning of the stems/underside of the plant and remove them. Do this daily and you should not have much of a problem
Answers: The best prevention is to bury the vines as they grow out. This not only makes it impossible for the insect to lay eggs on the stems, it also allows the plant to grow roots at the palm leaf nodes. Then even if you get a borer farther up the vine, there are roots along it to back support the plant. If you already have borers in the vines(there will be little piles of yellowish substance on the vines at the hole where they went surrounded by and are now spitting out their waste!), you can purloin a sharp knife and slit the vine lengthwise(parallel) and dig the worm out. Sometime they are pretty close to the hole, sometimes an inch or two away. Dig out the worms, and afterwards bury the vine. The most important ones to get out are at the chief stem where it goes into the ground- these worms do the most plunder since they cut off the water supply to the unbroken plant. Another thing to do is to look for the eggs before they grasp a chance to hatch. They are little brown/orangeish eggs, they deposit individually on the stems. Squash vine borers are a huge pain that can really ruin your crop.Good luck!
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